Coding & cracking go hand in hand though, unless you can crack codes you can't work out how to make them more secure.
I'll also add that it's a national disgrace that such an important site can be ignored in favour of arts projects.
Bletchley Park not only paved the way for computing and helped win WW2 but also helped the telecoms industry in the hands of the Post Office, which became Post Office telephones, which became British Telecom. Thousands of engineers who built the UK's telephone network trained there.
Funny, I've just come back from Russia and for the most part it's cool and happy. They have some very poor poor people and the DPC (police) are best not engaged in too much negotiation, but if you know the rules you get along fine.
This business with Georgia has been rather misreported, there has been an awful lot of winding up from both sides so it's a total grey area as to who's the bad guy.
I also think it would be very unwise of Bush or anyone else to enter into a game of political chess with them, Russians are nothing if not incredibly canny, and their sense of humour is very subtle. I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to provoke Bush into some massively stupid and akward international political situation just to prove a point.
We complained to our bosses for ages about a dodgy aircon unit, nothing got done until one day they found all the desk fans had vanished into the equipment room and there was a gale of superheated air directed from the equipment room, through the boss's office, and out of the fire escape.
It got fixed pretty quickly after that.
You might also point out that $600 saved on aircon will probably equal $1200 or much more in early component failure and downtime. When it's 30 in the server room, it's much hotter inside the server.
I see your point about faraday cages, however the large currents involved in welding can do funny things - for example if you weld a car body or chassis with the battery connected, stray currents can fry the alternator and ECU - yet all you're doing is connecting the welding earth clamp to the common ground, and faraday cage, that is a car's chassis.
Additionally, the thing won't be run over by trucks but it may be dug up by a JCB.
Bike frames are very thin and have a large surface area to dissipate the heat, if you're talking about a chunky steel box you are going to be putting more heat in and have relatively less surface to cool it. I'd want to keep the thing cool during the process, for example in a pool of water or wet towels - or make the lid a bolt-down affair. It would suck if the contents got damaged by having to slice the thing open in 25 years' time.
If it's being electrically welded (TIG/MIG/ARC) I'd also be slightly concerned about the electrical or RFI effects of the process on anything in the box.
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I'll also add that it's a national disgrace that such an important site can be ignored in favour of arts projects.
Bletchley Park not only paved the way for computing and helped win WW2 but also helped the telecoms industry in the hands of the Post Office, which became Post Office telephones, which became British Telecom. Thousands of engineers who built the UK's telephone network trained there.
This business with Georgia has been rather misreported, there has been an awful lot of winding up from both sides so it's a total grey area as to who's the bad guy.
I also think it would be very unwise of Bush or anyone else to enter into a game of political chess with them, Russians are nothing if not incredibly canny, and their sense of humour is very subtle. I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to provoke Bush into some massively stupid and akward international political situation just to prove a point.
It got fixed pretty quickly after that.
You might also point out that $600 saved on aircon will probably equal $1200 or much more in early component failure and downtime. When it's 30 in the server room, it's much hotter inside the server.
Additionally, the thing won't be run over by trucks but it may be dug up by a JCB.
Bike frames are very thin and have a large surface area to dissipate the heat, if you're talking about a chunky steel box you are going to be putting more heat in and have relatively less surface to cool it. I'd want to keep the thing cool during the process, for example in a pool of water or wet towels - or make the lid a bolt-down affair. It would suck if the contents got damaged by having to slice the thing open in 25 years' time. If it's being electrically welded (TIG/MIG/ARC) I'd also be slightly concerned about the electrical or RFI effects of the process on anything in the box.