I agree, there is *no way* that a DC-4 could be supported by its flight crew alone. Years ago I worked for this company who used a DC-4 to fly ore bags out of a mine to a town where the ore was then trucked out.
A DC-4 has four supercharged R-2000 radial engines with 14 cylinders (aka "jugs") on each engine. Most of these engines were 50 years old and had been overhauled countless times. That's 56 supercharged cylinder assemblies running in a high stress environment. Statistically, the odds of something fucking up on one of these engines on any given flight was very likely.
We had a licensed engineer and two apprentice engineers supporting this aircraft full-time between flights. Between the three of them, there was more work than could be done and quite often the aircraft would do a flight with shit broken just to make the narrow weather window. The only "maintenance" that I ever saw the flight crew do was dump oil in the engines.
A couple years after I left the company, one the engines on this DC-4 actually exploded in flight during an ore run and fell off of the aircraft. They did a crash landing in a nearby river to attempt to put out the fire that was engulfing the plane. The co-pilot and the other flight crew member on board swam to shore but the pilot ended up drowning in the river.
Or simply www. They probably have their web servers set up in some sort of round robin for load balancing. Why/. chose to pick on a single one of those servers I don't know.
My organization still runs 5.5 also. Although its "retarded", 5.5 with the service packs installed has been rock solid. 5.5's mail, calendaring and collaborative features aren't much different than what's in MSEX 2003.
Combined with the large increase in CAL costs (MS changed the licensing scheme between 5.5 and 2003), management has had little incentive to upgrade to something newer.
That said, with MS discontinuing support for 5.5 and a desire for better integration with Active Directory is motivating us to plan our upgrade to a current Exchange release next year.
I really wish E-Bay would provide a way to view feedback on a user sorted by the negative. I hate having to look through 600 "good seller. K great thanks! A++++++" just to find the 2% of the negative feedback that would actually be useful to determining what the real issues with the seller are.
would SEARS or even Walmart return this if they knew the truth and researched the products they return
Probably. One time I bought an XBox from Walmart and I tried to install a first gen modchip in it (involving 26 wires soldered to the MB). At around wire 18 I ended up burning a trace on the motherboard and the end result was the Xbox was totally fucked. I removed the chip and wires and screwed everything back together. The next day I took it back to Walmart and told them my new Xbox I'd just bought the day before was now angrily flashing a red LED and refusing to play games. The Walmart guy was like "WTF, I never saw one do that before!" and they gave me a brand new one.
The funny thing is, he removed it from the box and actually tried it out. He either didn't care or didn't notice that the stickers covering the screw holes were cut when he turned it over to examine the bottom.
If you've seen Lost In Translation, the R with L confusion by the Japanese seems to be a running gag throughout the film. I don't recall anybody screaming that the movie was racist, it's just how they were portrayed as speaking.
Exactly what I was thinking. Wouldn't backporting new code into old code have more risk and stability issues than simply upgrading the whole thing to a proven standard codebase?
Can somebody tell me why it seems everything requiring a cross-platform C++ gui widgets seems to be written with QT? There have always been licensing issues with this product when it comes to Open Source. Are there no alternatives?
Having a pool of points to spend from is the way the d20 psionic system works. I have to say, I don't see a lot of difference between spending points or filling slots. When you're out of juice, you're out of juice. You do get a lot more flexibility with psionics in that you can choose where to spend your points on the fly rather than prepare your spells in advance.
Looking at their results, I don't understand why the performance of 2.6.4 is 5% slower than 2.4.25 when serving static web pages and yet it rocks as a file server with 2.6.4 being a whopping 89% faster at serving files than 2.4.25. Given the steep skew in the results, are we really looking at how well Apache runs on 2.6.4 vs Samba?
Your XBox won't boot unsigned code regardless without a modchip or the 007 hack. I think the DVD reader in the X-Box is more or less conventional other than it has been crippled to be unable to read CD-R media. With some hardware modification, it is possible to use some types of off the shelf Samsung DVD readers as a direct replacement for the X-Box DVD drive.
Every Cisco router we have that will run IOS 12.2(2)T is capable of IPv6. This even includes most of the lowly 2500 series routers that we bought in '95.
To speak to the DB2 issue, DB2 is still a major cash cow for IBM. We pay a *shitload* of money for the DB2 licenses on our S/390 mainframe and our AS/400. We're locked into paying it every year. This is pretty much the only relational database option for us on these systems until we port our legacy apps to a cheaper platform.
Not too mention RedHat now charges a shitload of money for their flagship product.
I find it ironic that he chooses to compare Redhat, which primarily sells a product containing over 90% open source software for money, to Sun who gives away their proprietary product for free.
What is his point again? Does he think Java will be more sucessful if Sun open sources it and then sells it to people?
To combat the snow/ice build up problem, I painted my dish/LNB flat black. When the sun shines it heats it up enough to melt any residual ice/snow. I also think it looks cooler than the original drab gray.
Not everybody shopping for a 64 bit notebook would buy something cheesy like an eMachines laptop. VoodooPC has been selling their high end m:855 for some time now. Based on the Athlon 64, it also has ATI Mobility 9600 Graphics Pro chipset.
Keep in mind that SaskTel is a government owned crown corporation. Their mandate is to provide high quality services to their voting public, rather than to maximize profit like a true private sector business would be doing.
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I agree, there is *no way* that a DC-4 could be supported by its flight crew alone. Years ago I worked for this company who used a DC-4 to fly ore bags out of a mine to a town where the ore was then trucked out.
A DC-4 has four supercharged R-2000 radial engines with 14 cylinders (aka "jugs") on each engine. Most of these engines were 50 years old and had been overhauled countless times. That's 56 supercharged cylinder assemblies running in a high stress environment. Statistically, the odds of something fucking up on one of these engines on any given flight was very likely.
We had a licensed engineer and two apprentice engineers supporting this aircraft full-time between flights. Between the three of them, there was more work than could be done and quite often the aircraft would do a flight with shit broken just to make the narrow weather window. The only "maintenance" that I ever saw the flight crew do was dump oil in the engines.
A couple years after I left the company, one the engines on this DC-4 actually exploded in flight during an ore run and fell off of the aircraft. They did a crash landing in a nearby river to attempt to put out the fire that was engulfing the plane. The co-pilot and the other flight crew member on board swam to shore but the pilot ended up drowning in the river.
Or simply www. They probably have their web servers set up in some sort of round robin for load balancing. Why /. chose to pick on a single one of those servers I don't know.
My organization still runs 5.5 also. Although its "retarded", 5.5 with the service packs installed has been rock solid. 5.5's mail, calendaring and collaborative features aren't much different than what's in MSEX 2003.
Combined with the large increase in CAL costs (MS changed the licensing scheme between 5.5 and 2003), management has had little incentive to upgrade to something newer.
That said, with MS discontinuing support for 5.5 and a desire for better integration with Active Directory is motivating us to plan our upgrade to a current Exchange release next year.
I really wish E-Bay would provide a way to view feedback on a user sorted by the negative. I hate having to look through 600 "good seller. K great thanks! A++++++" just to find the 2% of the negative feedback that would actually be useful to determining what the real issues with the seller are.
would SEARS or even Walmart return this if they knew the truth and researched the products they return
Probably. One time I bought an XBox from Walmart and I tried to install a first gen modchip in it (involving 26 wires soldered to the MB). At around wire 18 I ended up burning a trace on the motherboard and the end result was the Xbox was totally fucked.
I removed the chip and wires and screwed everything back together. The next day I took it back to Walmart and told them my new Xbox I'd just bought the day before was now angrily flashing a red LED and refusing to play games. The Walmart guy was like "WTF, I never saw one do that before!" and they gave me a brand new one.
The funny thing is, he removed it from the box and actually tried it out. He either didn't care or didn't notice that the stickers covering the screw holes were cut when he turned it over to examine the bottom.
If you've seen Lost In Translation, the R with L confusion by the Japanese seems to be a running gag throughout the film. I don't recall anybody screaming that the movie was racist, it's just how they were portrayed as speaking.
What are you talking about? It works fine for me. You didn't install over top of your 0.5 installation did you?
It looks more like an Ewok
I wish I never read that. Now I can't watch the movie the same way knowing the blower is fake.
Exactly what I was thinking. Wouldn't backporting new code into old code have more risk and stability issues than simply upgrading the whole thing to a proven standard codebase?
Can somebody tell me why it seems everything requiring a cross-platform C++ gui widgets seems to be written with QT? There have always been licensing issues with this product when it comes to Open Source. Are there no alternatives?
Having a pool of points to spend from is the way the d20 psionic system works. I have to say, I don't see a lot of difference between spending points or filling slots. When you're out of juice, you're out of juice. You do get a lot more flexibility with psionics in that you can choose where to spend your points on the fly rather than prepare your spells in advance.
Looking at their results, I don't understand why the performance of 2.6.4 is 5% slower than 2.4.25 when serving static web pages and yet it rocks as a file server with 2.6.4 being a whopping 89% faster at serving files than 2.4.25.
Given the steep skew in the results, are we really looking at how well Apache runs on 2.6.4 vs Samba?
Your XBox won't boot unsigned code regardless without a modchip or the 007 hack. I think the DVD reader in the X-Box is more or less conventional other than it has been crippled to be unable to read CD-R media. With some hardware modification, it is possible to use some types of off the shelf Samsung DVD readers as a direct replacement for the X-Box DVD drive.
Your mattress must be getting pretty uncomfortable by now.
Every Cisco router we have that will run IOS 12.2(2)T is capable of IPv6. This even includes most of the lowly 2500 series routers that we bought in '95.
But how much value is in a 7 year warranty? Do you see yourself eventually using a 7 year old PC?
To speak to the DB2 issue, DB2 is still a major cash cow for IBM. We pay a *shitload* of money for the DB2 licenses on our S/390 mainframe and our AS/400. We're locked into paying it every year. This is pretty much the only relational database option for us on these systems until we port our legacy apps to a cheaper platform.
Not too mention RedHat now charges a shitload of money for their flagship product.
I find it ironic that he chooses to compare Redhat, which primarily sells a product containing over 90% open source software for money, to Sun who gives away their proprietary product for free.
What is his point again? Does he think Java will be more sucessful if Sun open sources it and then sells it to people?
To combat the snow/ice build up problem, I painted my dish/LNB flat black. When the sun shines it heats it up enough to melt any residual ice/snow. I also think it looks cooler than the original drab gray.
You must have missed all the inane speculations on the Rover's problems being a result of running some form of Microsoft product.
Yeah but it has that cool graphic on the cover.
Not everybody shopping for a 64 bit notebook would buy something cheesy like an eMachines laptop.
VoodooPC has been selling their high end m:855 for some time now. Based on the Athlon 64, it also has ATI Mobility 9600 Graphics Pro chipset.
Substantially lower. Mars has 38% of the Earth's gravity.
Keep in mind that SaskTel is a government owned crown corporation. Their mandate is to provide high quality services to their voting public, rather than to maximize profit like a true private sector business would be doing.