Never mind Homeland Security. What about the people whose houses these things are going to fall on when people without the skills required for a current private pilots license decide that "whenever they please" means during thunderstorms or when the clouds are generating ice or when the wind is gusting to 90 knots?
Moller is the worst snake-oil salesman in the entire history of aviation. He's been "nearly ready for production" for 20+ years now, and shows some rigged demo every time he needs a bit more investor money.
A decade or so ago, somebody on sci.military talked about how they destroy disks that had classified data on them. It involved software deletion, and then melting it down to slag with a thermite grenade, and then taking the slag under guard to a secure landfill.
I don't understand what they mean about sending it back to the computer, not the email address. Do they mean that they'll identify the postmaster or domain administrator, because most spamers don't even have those addresses, or if they do they're total black holes.
No, that was Burt Rutan's brother Dick, and Jeanne Yeager (who is Chuck's daughter, I believe). That was the first non-stop non-refueled flight, but it wasn't solo.
You know, I've read this story many times since it first appeared on the net. And I don't get it - surely there are other sports teams besides the New Jersey Devils that have similar logos? I mean, you don't expect a Texan to understand hockey, but what about other sports?
I think the CANDU reactor is inherently more meltdown-proof than this design. The CANDU reactors use heavy water as both the moderator and the coolant - if you lose the coolant, you also lose the moderator, so the reaction stops. The only bad situation would be if the coolant pumps stopped moving the coolant, but then you could dump the heavy water manually, or just wait for it to flash to steam and get sucked into the vacuum building that sits beside the containment building. Either way, the reaction stops before it gets to a "meltdown" point.
$50 an hour for friends, $100 an hour for strangers, $150 an hour for family.
Family is MUCH more annoying, because every virus or trojan or hardware fault that they pick up from then on becomes your fault, and if you refuse to fix it gets mentioned at every family gathering from then on.
- often when drawing a route, near the end the line does a slash off the map and back. Zooming in further will usually correct that.
- If you search a route using the airport id "roc" for Greater Rochester International Airport, instead of showing you a route to the passenger terminal, it shows you how to get to my flying club! (The general aviation area is on the south side of the airport, off Scottsville Rd, the passenger terminal is on the north side off... damn, I forget the name of the road.)
I beat you to it. I bought a 17" Powerbook last week at a special Apple discount they offer to employees and friends of employees when they want to clear out old inventory in advance of a new product announcement.
But chances are the announcement is only a small speed ramp-up, not a switch to G5s.
This object is not very far from other debris from the re-entry. It could very well turn out to be a chunk of something that got a bit melty on the way in.
1. External USB drive. (Actually two, so that one can be on the shelf and one plugged in). The drive is bigger than my existing system disk, and partitioned as one big bootable partition.
2. A cron job that runs 4 times a day that does
for DEST in/media/usb* ; do
if [ -d $DEST/home ] ; then
rsync -aSuvrx --delete //boot/home/usr/var/mp3s $DEST
fi done
If anything went wrong with the main disks, it would be pretty simple to get grub installed on the USB drive, and whip it out of the external enclosure and into the computer.
Simple, unattended, and easy to recover from. The only thing I'd add to this is that I'm thinking of doing a/etc/init.d/postfix stop/etc/init.d/innd stop
before the backup and a similar start afterwards to get the system a little more quiescent.
Seriously. My WAP is in my basement, and unless I stand right in front of the basement window I can't pick it up standing outside of my house. My wife's laptop has a better antenna than mine, and she's got MacStumbler, and she can't pick it up more than a few feet from the house.
In a way it's unfortunate, because there have been some nice days when I would have liked to sit outside, but couldn't get a signal.
Is this a phone that you can use ITMS to buy ring tones, or is this an iPod that has phone capability as well? I guess it's going to depend how much storage it's got.
My current phone has more storage than my first three or four or five computers put together, but that isn't enough to want to use it as my music player.
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Never mind Homeland Security. What about the people whose houses these things are going to fall on when people without the skills required for a current private pilots license decide that "whenever they please" means during thunderstorms or when the clouds are generating ice or when the wind is gusting to 90 knots?
Moller is the worst snake-oil salesman in the entire history of aviation. He's been "nearly ready for production" for 20+ years now, and shows some rigged demo every time he needs a bit more investor money.
Ah, CYTZ. I'm going to be landing there on Sunday.
I like this one better because it's a small general aviation plane: St. Hubert, Quebec
A decade or so ago, somebody on sci.military talked about how they destroy disks that had classified data on them. It involved software deletion, and then melting it down to slag with a thermite grenade, and then taking the slag under guard to a secure landfill.
You sent a Bagel, and it became a pancake.
As a current owner of a 6360CD (ok, it's sitting unused in a closet, but I still own it), tell me more about these lawsuits.
Somebody once described it to me as an attempt to get M68000 levels of performance out of a PowerPC chip.
I don't understand what they mean about sending it back to the computer, not the email address. Do they mean that they'll identify the postmaster or domain administrator, because most spamers don't even have those addresses, or if they do they're total black holes.
No, that was Burt Rutan's brother Dick, and Jeanne Yeager (who is Chuck's daughter, I believe). That was the first non-stop non-refueled flight, but it wasn't solo.
You know, I've read this story many times since it first appeared on the net. And I don't get it - surely there are other sports teams besides the New Jersey Devils that have similar logos? I mean, you don't expect a Texan to understand hockey, but what about other sports?
I think the CANDU reactor is inherently more meltdown-proof than this design. The CANDU reactors use heavy water as both the moderator and the coolant - if you lose the coolant, you also lose the moderator, so the reaction stops. The only bad situation would be if the coolant pumps stopped moving the coolant, but then you could dump the heavy water manually, or just wait for it to flash to steam and get sucked into the vacuum building that sits beside the containment building. Either way, the reaction stops before it gets to a "meltdown" point.
$50 an hour for friends, $100 an hour for strangers, $150 an hour for family.
Family is MUCH more annoying, because every virus or trojan or hardware fault that they pick up from then on becomes your fault, and if you refuse to fix it gets mentioned at every family gathering from then on.
- often when drawing a route, near the end the line does a slash off the map and back. Zooming in further will usually correct that.
- If you search a route using the airport id "roc" for Greater Rochester International Airport, instead of showing you a route to the passenger terminal, it shows you how to get to my flying club! (The general aviation area is on the south side of the airport, off Scottsville Rd, the passenger terminal is on the north side off... damn, I forget the name of the road.)
I beat you to it. I bought a 17" Powerbook last week at a special Apple discount they offer to employees and friends of employees when they want to clear out old inventory in advance of a new product announcement.
But chances are the announcement is only a small speed ramp-up, not a switch to G5s.
UFOs are war flyers looking to see if earth has an open node yet.
And people wonder why my daughter is a lesbian.
Yup. And somebody already made the Gordon Freeman joke I was going to make.
So, was that airboat I'm using in Half-Life 2 an IBM product?
file-scoped variables haven't been a good idea since 1980
Yeah, now we use class static variables WHICH ARE THE SAME GOD-DAMNED THING, only with a pretty set of brace brackets around them.
This object is not very far from other debris from the re-entry. It could very well turn out to be a chunk of something that got a bit melty on the way in.
1. External USB drive. (Actually two, so that one can be on the shelf and one plugged in). The drive is bigger than my existing system disk, and partitioned as one big bootable partition.
/media/usb* ; do /boot /home /usr /var /mp3s $DEST
/etc/init.d/postfix stop /etc/init.d/innd stop
2. A cron job that runs 4 times a day that does
for DEST in
if [ -d $DEST/home ] ; then
rsync -aSuvrx --delete /
fi
done
If anything went wrong with the main disks, it would be pretty simple to get grub installed on the USB drive, and whip it out of the external enclosure and into the computer.
Simple, unattended, and easy to recover from. The only thing I'd add to this is that I'm thinking of doing a
before the backup and a similar start afterwards to get the system a little more quiescent.
I think you meant Just Fucking Google it:IP KVM
Seriously. My WAP is in my basement, and unless I stand right in front of the basement window I can't pick it up standing outside of my house. My wife's laptop has a better antenna than mine, and she's got MacStumbler, and she can't pick it up more than a few feet from the house.
In a way it's unfortunate, because there have been some nice days when I would have liked to sit outside, but couldn't get a signal.
The same acronym was used as the name of Stone and Parker's band, which did a very punked-up version of "What Would Brian Boitano Do?".
Maybe if they'd stop selling those "all weekend erection" pills they wouldn't need longer porn movies.
Is this a phone that you can use ITMS to buy ring tones, or is this an iPod that has phone capability as well? I guess it's going to depend how much storage it's got.
My current phone has more storage than my first three or four or five computers put together, but that isn't enough to want to use it as my music player.