I thought the same thing, but according to SpaceWeather.com, there has not been a X-class flare in the last 24 hours - just a minor C6 flare. Sunspot 431 poses a 10% threat of an X-class flare in the next 24 hours.
If your sound card/motherboard sound is bad, try turning down the mixer levels on the computer, and turn up the speaker volume to compensate. Some simply can't cope with the levels set to 100% and distort badly - I suspect this is due to poor audio circuitry, but it may be a limitation of the mixer chip. Experiment to see whether turning down the master volume and/or source level controls give the best results.
This is actually the best way to dispose of a whale carcass. Fish, crabs etc. will quickly dispose of a million whale morsels; one big chunk of whale will take weeks of nibbling, and in the meantime stinks to high heaven. The trick is to detonate the explosives from outside of the fallout zone...
On the other hand the show is extremely inconsistent, StarBug for instance is clearly not much bigger than a truck but still it has huge cargo decks and mile-long ventilation shafts!
Knowing BBC SciFi budgets, the sets are built from left-overs from previous series; obviously bits of the Tardis made it in.:-)
To install Solaris properly you boot off CD1, which is also bootable, and it gives you a regular unkludged Solaris install.
That's fine except Solaris DVDs have everything on one disk - booting it leaves you stuck in Webstart.
(That's after you update the DVD drive firmware to let you boot - an interesting, but not impossible, proposition with a new server and no OS installed to flash from...) I suspect there's a way around this by supplying the boot file as an argument, but I was in a hurry and reverted to the CDs instead.
Wow, people manage to get to their 4th year (of anything that requires even incidental use of Windows) without developing an I - must - press - Ctrl-S - every - 15 - seconds reflex?
Half their luck! I had to develop a Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q reflex as a student - and 15 seconds isn't far off how long it too the next screenful of text to display...
1100 people, 1100 legal copies of fragging games? I hope the organisers at least include a "I certify that all my software is legal" clause to give them some indemnity. The BSA (or Canadian equivalent) would be itching to raid the place - imagine the propaganda value: "BSA breaks up giant software piracy ring". (If not the BSA, then the games manufacturers - send mole to fragfest, look for evidence of pirate copies of their software, get warrant to raid fragfest, profit!!)
The batch of SunRay 1 terminals (first generation?) that Sun recalled due to a power supply problem have the faulty capacitors. They were the same brand of capacitors as some dual-CPU MSI motherboards we had that died.
At the time, I also wondered what other devices may have these faulty aluminium electrolytic capacitors, but it appears the answer is not many; probably due to their cost, they seem to be restricted to high frequency switched mode power supplies.
Nasa also reported that one of the last data events they received from the shuttle was a "loss in tire pressure".
From what I heard on the TV coverage here (Australia) this morning, most or all of the abnormal sensor readings were due to the loss of sensors; I think the term used was "off-scale low reading". This could be easily confused by reporters to mean "low tyre pressure". (The same term was used for the temperature sensors but not reported as "low temperatures" by the media, probably because the expectation would be for high temperatures.)
Imations fall squarely into the "crap quality blanks" bucket IMO. I bought a pack of 10 Imations: four were scratched beyond use inside their wrappers (there were plastic? particles in one or two of the cases); half of the remaining disks made coasters burning at their rated speed. I reported the problem to them (so they can fix their QA procedures), but heard nothing back. Never again!
I've had good results with Kodak Digital Science blanks with the Infoguard protection layer (gold instead of blue/green/cyan.) For everyday stuff, I use GoTech: cheap, and so far good results with CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
. I work in a high-tech industry and I see more people carrying their PDAs than actually using them.
Unlike a paper organiser, a PDA will beep to notify you of an appointment. That's the reason why I don't bother with paper - I'd write stuff in the diary, and it would remind me that I'd missed something a week later when I looked at it again... Some people adapted to slavishly checking their paper organiser every hour or so - I'm not one of them.
The main reason I use my PDA is as a pocket computer - Tide Calculator, Astronomy, Bird Checklist, Date difference calculator, plus the more traditional phone book, appointments (with alarms) etc.
I think PDA marketers realise that calling them organisers is a great way for geeks to justify to their boss why they need to buy a pocket computer. (Let's face it, what geek *doesn't* need organising...;-)
I'd really, *really* like Unix (Linux, Solaris etc.) to support arbitrary non-English languages as simply as Windows. While you can display the fonts easily enough with Mozilla etc. but you can't print it!
The closest I've come so far is using the Solaris supplied (and well-hidden) copy of Xprt - it will at least print the characters instead of empty boxes, but ithasarealproblemwithspacesandformating. I've had to give in and install Windows for this role to keep the users happy.:-(
No no no... Nerds listen to Sex Pistols and Def Leopard; they look at Britney...
Truly classic music is that which stands the test of time. Apart from a few exceptions (e.g. Garbage), the bulk of my music collection is over ten years old. The Sex Pistols aren't everyone's cup of tea, but they are a classic; Britney will be lucky to be remembered 25 months from now.
(To stay on topic, Unix is your classic OS; Windows is Britney - nice to look at, but soon forgotten.)
I followed the instructions for the "Express" installation, which just bounced me to WindowsUpdate. I already had all of the available patches installed (except.NET and Euro support), but I don't see these options in the Start Menu or Add/Remove Programs dialog. Are they only visible if you have a rival product (e.g. Mozilla) configured as the default handler for those file types?
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I thought the same thing, but according to SpaceWeather.com, there has not been a X-class flare in the last 24 hours - just a minor C6 flare. Sunspot 431 poses a 10% threat of an X-class flare in the next 24 hours.
If your sound card/motherboard sound is bad, try turning down the mixer levels on the computer, and turn up the speaker volume to compensate. Some simply can't cope with the levels set to 100% and distort badly - I suspect this is due to poor audio circuitry, but it may be a limitation of the mixer chip. Experiment to see whether turning down the master volume and/or source level controls give the best results.
This is actually the best way to dispose of a whale carcass. Fish, crabs etc. will quickly dispose of a million whale morsels; one big chunk of whale will take weeks of nibbling, and in the meantime stinks to high heaven. The trick is to detonate the explosives from outside of the fallout zone...
Will tweaking the pots fix the infamous "Cannot read disc" errors?
On the other hand the show is extremely inconsistent, StarBug for instance is clearly not much bigger than a truck but still it has huge cargo decks and mile-long ventilation shafts!
:-)
Knowing BBC SciFi budgets, the sets are built from left-overs from previous series; obviously bits of the Tardis made it in.
To install Solaris properly you boot off CD1, which is also bootable, and it gives you a regular unkludged Solaris install.
That's fine except Solaris DVDs have everything on one disk - booting it leaves you stuck in Webstart. (That's after you update the DVD drive firmware to let you boot - an interesting, but not impossible, proposition with a new server and no OS installed to flash from...) I suspect there's a way around this by supplying the boot file as an argument, but I was in a hurry and reverted to the CDs instead.
I bet the insurance companies will swear blind that it's an "Act of God" and excuse themselves from paying any meteor damage claims.
For an amusing but insightful take on this escape clause, watch the film "The Man Who Sued God."
Wow, people manage to get to their 4th year (of anything that requires even incidental use of Windows) without developing an I - must - press - Ctrl-S - every - 15 - seconds reflex?
Half their luck! I had to develop a Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q reflex as a student - and 15 seconds isn't far off how long it too the next screenful of text to display...
1100 people, 1100 legal copies of fragging games? I hope the organisers at least include a "I certify that all my software is legal" clause to give them some indemnity. The BSA (or Canadian equivalent) would be itching to raid the place - imagine the propaganda value: "BSA breaks up giant software piracy ring". (If not the BSA, then the games manufacturers - send mole to fragfest, look for evidence of pirate copies of their software, get warrant to raid fragfest, profit!!)
It's those damn rubbernecking packets! You'd think they'd never seen an collision before. Move along, nothing to see here...
By simply filtering out all e-mails that have the word "Nigeria" in them.
I think they've wised up to that - I seen versions of the scam claiming to be from "Sierra Leone" and "Cote d'Ivoire".
I'll be interested to see how the new Mozilla 1.3 mail filters work, but I don't want to try an alpha release.
The batch of SunRay 1 terminals (first generation?) that Sun recalled due to a power supply problem have the faulty capacitors. They were the same brand of capacitors as some dual-CPU MSI motherboards we had that died.
At the time, I also wondered what other devices may have these faulty aluminium electrolytic capacitors, but it appears the answer is not many; probably due to their cost, they seem to be restricted to high frequency switched mode power supplies.
Why not take in one step further and install a CPU-powered lava lamp? It's the next logical step from AOpen's valve amplifier motherboards.
Nasa also reported that one of the last data events they received from the shuttle was a "loss in tire pressure".
From what I heard on the TV coverage here (Australia) this morning, most or all of the abnormal sensor readings were due to the loss of sensors; I think the term used was "off-scale low reading". This could be easily confused by reporters to mean "low tyre pressure". (The same term was used for the temperature sensors but not reported as "low temperatures" by the media, probably because the expectation would be for high temperatures.)
I just buy Imations...
Imations fall squarely into the "crap quality blanks" bucket IMO. I bought a pack of 10 Imations: four were scratched beyond use inside their wrappers (there were plastic? particles in one or two of the cases); half of the remaining disks made coasters burning at their rated speed. I reported the problem to them (so they can fix their QA procedures), but heard nothing back. Never again!
I've had good results with Kodak Digital Science blanks with the Infoguard protection layer (gold instead of blue/green/cyan.) For everyday stuff, I use GoTech: cheap, and so far good results with CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
"Not inherently less secure" is a strange way of advocating your position.
;-)
That's because saying they're "designed to be less secure" tends to upset security people.
Why not just dust off the ol' Saturn V rockets and Apollo modules and send the conspiracy theorists to the Moon to visit the Apollo landing sites?
;-)
If the make it to the Moon, they're proven wrong. If they don't make (and die horribly in space), they're right. (Either way, we win.
. I work in a high-tech industry and I see more people carrying their PDAs than actually using them.
;-)
Unlike a paper organiser, a PDA will beep to notify you of an appointment. That's the reason why I don't bother with paper - I'd write stuff in the diary, and it would remind me that I'd missed something a week later when I looked at it again... Some people adapted to slavishly checking their paper organiser every hour or so - I'm not one of them.
The main reason I use my PDA is as a pocket computer - Tide Calculator, Astronomy, Bird Checklist, Date difference calculator, plus the more traditional phone book, appointments (with alarms) etc.
I think PDA marketers realise that calling them organisers is a great way for geeks to justify to their boss why they need to buy a pocket computer. (Let's face it, what geek *doesn't* need organising...
I'd really, *really* like Unix (Linux, Solaris etc.) to support arbitrary non-English languages as simply as Windows. While you can display the fonts easily enough with Mozilla etc. but you can't print it!
:-(
The closest I've come so far is using the Solaris supplied (and well-hidden) copy of Xprt - it will at least print the characters instead of empty boxes, but ithasarealproblemwithspacesandformating. I've had to give in and install Windows for this role to keep the users happy.
No no no... Nerds listen to Sex Pistols and Def Leopard; they look at Britney...
Truly classic music is that which stands the test of time. Apart from a few exceptions (e.g. Garbage), the bulk of my music collection is over ten years old. The Sex Pistols aren't everyone's cup of tea, but they are a classic; Britney will be lucky to be remembered 25 months from now.
(To stay on topic, Unix is your classic OS; Windows is Britney - nice to look at, but soon forgotten.)
I guess the hadn't discovered more then 256 colors in the 1500's.
They're maps - you only need four colours...
Purely on the pattern of who won and draws, Karmnik should win the next one (and the one after if there was such a match.)
"If 600 years old you be, look like a hobbit you will not." ;-)
So sysadmins are now the Knights who say N1?
... a 5hrubbery!"
"We want
I followed the instructions for the "Express" installation, which just bounced me to WindowsUpdate. I already had all of the available patches installed (except .NET and Euro support), but I don't see these options in the Start Menu or Add/Remove Programs dialog. Are they only visible if you have a rival product (e.g. Mozilla) configured as the default handler for those file types?