Dude you would need a hell of a drill to punch a 1\8" hole through an ibeam without a pilot hole. Milwaukee makes one, it's basically a portable drill press with a badass electromagnet in the base of it. It costs about as much as a pretty good used car. Failing that, you go buy a complete drill index -- it's a set of drills that start a little bigger around than wire and get bigger in 1/64" increments -- and you start with a very tiny one and drill a pilot hole. Use a sharp punch and a hammer to make a little dimple to start the drill. Then you work your way up through the index to the size hole you want. And, use oil. A couple drops at a time of light machine oil. Also low speed, not high. The speed and feed rate might be found in a manual but it's really a matter of feel. It's slower than you think.
To the poster below who is worried about the integrity of a building after a hole is drilled through a beam, calm down. It's a building not a jet fighter. You'd have to spend your life on the end of a drill to make enough holes to undermine the redundancy in any code-compliant building.
This exhibit has been at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco forever. Iirc there are recipes for square-wheeled carts in the Exploratorium Cookbook, a guide to building science exhibits and projects.
See also,
"An Amusing Property of the Catenary""...the catenary, this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. I think it pleases Him to see them raised.''
Quoted from Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale. (Copyright (C) 1983 Mark Helprin).
Chowhounds (http://www.chowhound.com/main.html) is like slashdot for food freaks. Recipe questions, ingredient searches, restaurant questions, whatever. They will take care of you.
Not only do the leaves insulate the chicken, so does the cooled layer of lava outside of the leaves -- pumice or cooled lava is full of airpockets and does not conduct heat very well. Also keep in mind that there is no radiant heat in this environment. Aton can cook a hen under the broiler so quickly because there is a combination of ambient heat, convection, and most importantly radiant heat or infrared.
I've been fooling around with a computer for about two years now, and I'm still a total neophyte. Partly because I don't have the time and other resources (hardware, software, network of mentors to help me with the basics) to "go larval" and pile in the knowledge, but I believe partly because of M$' deliberate obfuscation of the guts of their software. So, even though this is a site more for people who understand this stuff than for newbies, can anyone explain in some detail what advantages I might look forward to from an MS breakup? And, any advice on steps I might take in the meantime to learn more on my own? I have an old P133 w/ 1.2 gig HD that I could dedicate to Linux once I transplant my old info into my new box (Compaq Cyrix M-II 366@250Mhz, 4G HD). What's the best/cheapest way to go about such a transplant, and what's the best/cheapest way to install Linux w/o a network of "Linux buddies?" Is my local LUG's installfest a good bet, or am I better off going it alone so as to learn more? Okay, so I'm off topic, but I haven't yet seen a thread that addresses the needs of the computer newbie who's interested in Linux -- all the info out there presumes a substantial understanding of at least some of the guts of Windoze, but isn't the point of Linux at least partly to free us of the tyranny of Redmond?
New Millenium's ass! The odometer rolls over when all the digits change at once and you missed it dumbass. See you in a thousand years. Besides, the Catholic Church says this is it, and it's their calendar, so who the fsck are you?
The New Yorker magazine, in an article about the NSA, quoted a senior military officer posted to the NSA who described the civilian bureaucracy there as a "self-licking ice cream cone."
YES it's really right. M$ and their lawyers are in charge of looking after their money, and we are in charge of looking out for ourselves. If they lay down on their "fiduciary duty" to make money it's up to us to take advantage of that. It's not a friendly game of tennis, it's *business.* They have plenty of resources to take care of themselves and to step all over anyone they want to. If they offer a deal that's not as advantageous to them as they might prefer they'll figure that out soon enough--looks like they already have. In the meantime, however, I'm glad that the deal proved advantageous to others.
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Dude you would need a hell of a drill to punch a 1\8" hole through an ibeam without a pilot hole. Milwaukee makes one, it's basically a portable drill press with a badass electromagnet in the base of it. It costs about as much as a pretty good used car. Failing that, you go buy a complete drill index -- it's a set of drills that start a little bigger around than wire and get bigger in 1/64" increments -- and you start with a very tiny one and drill a pilot hole. Use a sharp punch and a hammer to make a little dimple to start the drill. Then you work your way up through the index to the size hole you want. And, use oil. A couple drops at a time of light machine oil. Also low speed, not high. The speed and feed rate might be found in a manual but it's really a matter of feel. It's slower than you think.
To the poster below who is worried about the integrity of a building after a hole is drilled through a beam, calm down. It's a building not a jet fighter. You'd have to spend your life on the end of a drill to make enough holes to undermine the redundancy in any code-compliant building.
This exhibit has been at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco forever. Iirc there are recipes for square-wheeled carts in the Exploratorium Cookbook, a guide to building science exhibits and projects. See also, "An Amusing Property of the Catenary" "...the catenary, this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. I think it pleases Him to see them raised.'' Quoted from Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale. (Copyright (C) 1983 Mark Helprin).
Chowhounds (http://www.chowhound.com/main.html) is like slashdot for food freaks. Recipe questions, ingredient searches, restaurant questions, whatever. They will take care of you.
you fucking creep
Indeed Gore won the popular vote, widely known elswhere in the free world as the vote...
Not only do the leaves insulate the chicken, so does the cooled layer of lava outside of the leaves -- pumice or cooled lava is full of airpockets and does not conduct heat very well. Also keep in mind that there is no radiant heat in this environment. Aton can cook a hen under the broiler so quickly because there is a combination of ambient heat, convection, and most importantly radiant heat or infrared.
the wife is always suggesting that I "Get my ass off the computer?"
I've been fooling around with a computer for about two years now, and I'm still a total neophyte. Partly because I don't have the time and other resources (hardware, software, network of mentors to help me with the basics) to "go larval" and pile in the knowledge, but I believe partly because of M$' deliberate obfuscation of the guts of their software. So, even though this is a site more for people who understand this stuff than for newbies, can anyone explain in some detail what advantages I might look forward to from an MS breakup? And, any advice on steps I might take in the meantime to learn more on my own? I have an old P133 w/ 1.2 gig HD that I could dedicate to Linux once I transplant my old info into my new box (Compaq Cyrix M-II 366@250Mhz, 4G HD). What's the best/cheapest way to go about such a transplant, and what's the best/cheapest way to install Linux w/o a network of "Linux buddies?" Is my local LUG's installfest a good bet, or am I better off going it alone so as to learn more? Okay, so I'm off topic, but I haven't yet seen a thread that addresses the needs of the computer newbie who's interested in Linux -- all the info out there presumes a substantial understanding of at least some of the guts of Windoze, but isn't the point of Linux at least partly to free us of the tyranny of Redmond?
New Millenium's ass! The odometer rolls over when all the digits change at once and you missed it dumbass. See you in a thousand years. Besides, the Catholic Church says this is it, and it's their calendar, so who the fsck are you?
The New Yorker magazine, in an article about the NSA, quoted a senior military officer posted to the NSA who described the civilian bureaucracy there as a "self-licking ice cream cone."
YES it's really right. M$ and their lawyers are in charge of looking after their money, and we are in charge of looking out for ourselves. If they lay down on their "fiduciary duty" to make money it's up to us to take advantage of that. It's not a friendly game of tennis, it's *business.* They have plenty of resources to take care of themselves and to step all over anyone they want to. If they offer a deal that's not as advantageous to them as they might prefer they'll figure that out soon enough--looks like they already have. In the meantime, however, I'm glad that the deal proved advantageous to others.