Have you ever looked inside of a microwave? Most of us have, but that annoying grid pattern serves an actual purpose. It effectively shunts away the microwaves so that our eyes don't explode while we are watching the popcorn bag burst into growth. Since ADS works on a similar principle the same type of "shield" in ones clothing would act similarly. Forming a phalanx of mirrors (like the other sides of the microwave) would be even worse - allowing the energy to be redirected. Fortunately neither wearing hijabs fashioned from screen doors, nor carrying a giant reflective shield is terrorist chic. (or is that sheik?)
If you are building everything into a single shipping container it will be much easier. There aren't exactly pre-fabricated parts for connecting them, so you would need metal working experience for anything larger than a single container. (Not to mention connections are a good place for leaks)
Containers are typically 8-ft wide by 8.5-ft high with lengths of: 20-ft, 40-ft, 45-ft, 48-ft, and 53-ft (you can get 4.5-ft high and 9.5-ft high containers as well, but they aren't as common)
One idea would be to design an efficiency/studio apartment into a single container and build from that. If your lot is small you can stack units (12 wide by 3 high by 2 deep would take 1000 square feet for 72 studio apartments... excellent solution for low cost housing) For ideas see the floor plans for an RV or camper trailer.
Another method is to turn each container into a space/spaces and connect them in any efficient/attractive method. If lot size is not an issue and you are building a "single family home", you can arrange various sized containers around a central point and build a separate single space (or spaces) that connects all of the containers. Otherwise you can go up to 3 containers high. If you drive a "smart" car you can even have a semi-functional garage.
Perspectives from an engineer on the gulf oil spill. Submit your favorite solution by filling out a form here:
http://www.horizonedocs.com/artform.php
HOWTO fix the gulf oil spill and minimize impacts.
“Oil-water separators”
Kevin Costner’s “invention” is not a new technology. The same results can be achieved with a suction pump (the “goes in”) that discharges to an oil water separator ( widely available commercially in capacities of 5000 gallons per minute with capacities of 50,000 gallons – probably more). From the oil water separator tank, the oil and water are then discharged to an external tank and the ocean respectively.
“Insufficient Oil Booms”
This is not only a problem of insufficient quantity, but also a case of insufficient type. Regarding the insufficient type, a deep-water boom (going to the depth of the spill) is necessary to contain the discharged oil to the immediate vicinity to minimize the environmental impact and for ease of collection and cleanup. The inability to meet the demands for smaller, more traditional (off-shore) booms can be met locally using readily available local labor, much the way sandbagging is handled. This would require a length of fabric, an equal length of steel chain or other heavy material, two sewing machines a spray foam blower and an ounce of imagination
“STOPPING THE LEAK”
Method 1: Freeze seal and weld a cap - Cryostop of Wilmington, NC makes freeze seals of sufficient size and there are liquid nitrogen tanks of sufficient capacity available at various naval shipyards. Once a freeze seal is in place the pipe can be capped or even fitted with a valve for future use.
Method 2,3: Plug/Cap the hole – Using the mathematically determined flow rate to deduce the well pressure (along with the surface area of the pipe opening) will enable engineers to determine the weight of a plug necessary to overcome the pressure and stop the leak. This plug can be bullet shaped and go inside the pipe or an elongated, cone-shaped cap that seats on the outside wall of the pipe.
Method 4: Reduce the flow rate by inserting large porous material(s) – Since the capacity of the attached system is already maxed out, reducing the flow rate is essential to enable currently installed systems to handle the amount of flow. Aside from capping the hole or creating a new one to relive the pressure, the only way to reduce the flow rate is to increase the differential pressure throughout the system, such that the pressure at discharge is lower (and thus the flow rate). This is done by increasing head loss throughout the pipe. Head losses occur normally due to friction or from any treacherous path such as a bend in the pipe, but can be created artificially by introducing a treacherous path into the system. Cutting into the pipe to insert a series of plates to create a series of treacherous paths would be too risky, but inserting porous materials (large sponges etc) into the pipe opening would provide the same results, provided the materials are kept inside.
Method 5: Use hot taps to divert the flow – As hinted in Method 4 it is possible to reduce the flow rate of the leak by making another hole to relieve the pressure. Simply making an extra hole in the pipe would defeat the purpose, fortunately there is already a product called a hot tap that is used to do exactly that and is used all the time in the construction industry to tap into live natural gas lines. These hot taps can be used to attach alternate pipes/tubes for removal and accommodate the lack of capacity of the main line.
Method 6: The Plunger Method - When a plunger is inverted the upward force on the bottom creates an outward force along its circumference. In this situation inserting a large “inverted plunger” would create a self sealing plug due to the upward force of the well pressure.
Method 7: The Flange insertion Method – It is possible the cut off the majority of oil flow by cuttin
Puppy Linux implements periodic syncing to its save file (ext2,3,& 4) and the times can be adjusted. This was initially implemented when flash drives were less reliable, but still useful if you want to reuse old equipment or if you need to do a lot of read/write intesive operations.
Abiword can sufficiently handle most all of the documents you want to manage (pdf support is better but could still use improvement) and you can mark them up and collaborate via abicollab.net. The best part about abiword is that is portable to a large number of platforms including handheld devices (maemo), portableapps.com (for win32 on usb), mac and most *-nix as a package
I had enquired about this during early KDE4 development - more specifically being able to share individual virtual desktops with one user per virtual desktop. This was for a school setting so that a teacher could help students directly from the desktop. This would have drastically reduced system requirements for a classroom setting, but basically the response was NO! what a waste of effort - that is useless. Fortunately iTALC provides most of this functionality but has a larger footprint than I was looking for, however it is probably suitable to your purposes. (student=1 workspace)(teacher=all/any workspaces)... Linux kernel 2.6.33 will bring kernel shared memory & I too can use iTALC
I find it really hard to believe that the bloated desktop environments do not have the same capability that the minimal jwm (joe's window manager) has, but maybe so. In jwm just right click on the top of the window and send it to whatever "desktop" you want. It is not even limited to 2 desktops/monitors and jwm is available in every distro from TinyCore and Puppy(default wm) to Ubuntu and Suse.
You can write an extremely fast and powerful (b)ash cgi-script using a properly compiled snapshot of busybox (it will call builtin find, sed, grep... which is much faster than calling separate programs) If you run it on a static webpage using busbox httpd as the server it can even be a function within your server script.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you ever looked inside of a microwave? Most of us have, but that annoying grid pattern serves an actual purpose. It effectively shunts away the microwaves so that our eyes don't explode while we are watching the popcorn bag burst into growth. Since ADS works on a similar principle the same type of "shield" in ones clothing would act similarly. Forming a phalanx of mirrors (like the other sides of the microwave) would be even worse - allowing the energy to be redirected. Fortunately neither wearing hijabs fashioned from screen doors, nor carrying a giant reflective shield is terrorist chic. (or is that sheik?)
If you are building everything into a single shipping container it will be much easier. There aren't exactly pre-fabricated parts for connecting them, so you would need metal working experience for anything larger than a single container. (Not to mention connections are a good place for leaks)
Containers are typically 8-ft wide by 8.5-ft high with lengths of: 20-ft, 40-ft, 45-ft, 48-ft, and 53-ft (you can get 4.5-ft high and 9.5-ft high containers as well, but they aren't as common)
One idea would be to design an efficiency/studio apartment into a single container and build from that. ... excellent solution for low cost housing) For ideas see the floor plans for an RV or camper trailer.
If your lot is small you can stack units (12 wide by 3 high by 2 deep would take 1000 square feet for 72 studio apartments
Another method is to turn each container into a space/spaces and connect them in any efficient/attractive method.
If lot size is not an issue and you are building a "single family home", you can arrange various sized containers around a central point and build a separate single space (or spaces) that connects all of the containers. Otherwise you can go up to 3 containers high. If you drive a "smart" car you can even have a semi-functional garage.
Perspectives from an engineer on the gulf oil spill. Submit your favorite solution by filling out a form here: http://www.horizonedocs.com/artform.php HOWTO fix the gulf oil spill and minimize impacts. “Oil-water separators” Kevin Costner’s “invention” is not a new technology. The same results can be achieved with a suction pump (the “goes in”) that discharges to an oil water separator ( widely available commercially in capacities of 5000 gallons per minute with capacities of 50,000 gallons – probably more). From the oil water separator tank, the oil and water are then discharged to an external tank and the ocean respectively. “Insufficient Oil Booms” This is not only a problem of insufficient quantity, but also a case of insufficient type. Regarding the insufficient type, a deep-water boom (going to the depth of the spill) is necessary to contain the discharged oil to the immediate vicinity to minimize the environmental impact and for ease of collection and cleanup. The inability to meet the demands for smaller, more traditional (off-shore) booms can be met locally using readily available local labor, much the way sandbagging is handled. This would require a length of fabric, an equal length of steel chain or other heavy material, two sewing machines a spray foam blower and an ounce of imagination “STOPPING THE LEAK” Method 1: Freeze seal and weld a cap - Cryostop of Wilmington, NC makes freeze seals of sufficient size and there are liquid nitrogen tanks of sufficient capacity available at various naval shipyards. Once a freeze seal is in place the pipe can be capped or even fitted with a valve for future use. Method 2,3: Plug/Cap the hole – Using the mathematically determined flow rate to deduce the well pressure (along with the surface area of the pipe opening) will enable engineers to determine the weight of a plug necessary to overcome the pressure and stop the leak. This plug can be bullet shaped and go inside the pipe or an elongated, cone-shaped cap that seats on the outside wall of the pipe. Method 4: Reduce the flow rate by inserting large porous material(s) – Since the capacity of the attached system is already maxed out, reducing the flow rate is essential to enable currently installed systems to handle the amount of flow. Aside from capping the hole or creating a new one to relive the pressure, the only way to reduce the flow rate is to increase the differential pressure throughout the system, such that the pressure at discharge is lower (and thus the flow rate). This is done by increasing head loss throughout the pipe. Head losses occur normally due to friction or from any treacherous path such as a bend in the pipe, but can be created artificially by introducing a treacherous path into the system. Cutting into the pipe to insert a series of plates to create a series of treacherous paths would be too risky, but inserting porous materials (large sponges etc) into the pipe opening would provide the same results, provided the materials are kept inside. Method 5: Use hot taps to divert the flow – As hinted in Method 4 it is possible to reduce the flow rate of the leak by making another hole to relieve the pressure. Simply making an extra hole in the pipe would defeat the purpose, fortunately there is already a product called a hot tap that is used to do exactly that and is used all the time in the construction industry to tap into live natural gas lines. These hot taps can be used to attach alternate pipes/tubes for removal and accommodate the lack of capacity of the main line. Method 6: The Plunger Method - When a plunger is inverted the upward force on the bottom creates an outward force along its circumference. In this situation inserting a large “inverted plunger” would create a self sealing plug due to the upward force of the well pressure. Method 7: The Flange insertion Method – It is possible the cut off the majority of oil flow by cuttin
Puppy Linux implements periodic syncing to its save file (ext2,3,& 4) and the times can be adjusted. This was initially implemented when flash drives were less reliable, but still useful if you want to reuse old equipment or if you need to do a lot of read/write intesive operations.
Abiword can sufficiently handle most all of the documents you want to manage (pdf support is better but could still use improvement) and you can mark them up and collaborate via abicollab.net. The best part about abiword is that is portable to a large number of platforms including handheld devices (maemo), portableapps.com (for win32 on usb), mac and most *-nix as a package
http://abicollab.net/
http://abisource.com/
I had enquired about this during early KDE4 development - more specifically being able to share individual virtual desktops with one user per virtual desktop. This was for a school setting so that a teacher could help students directly from the desktop. This would have drastically reduced system requirements for a classroom setting, but basically the response was NO! what a waste of effort - that is useless. Fortunately iTALC provides most of this functionality but has a larger footprint than I was looking for, however it is probably suitable to your purposes. ... Linux kernel 2.6.33 will bring kernel shared memory & I too can use iTALC
(student=1 workspace)(teacher=all/any workspaces)
http://italc.sourceforge.net//
I find it really hard to believe that the bloated desktop environments do not have the same capability that the minimal jwm (joe's window manager) has, but maybe so. In jwm just right click on the top of the window and send it to whatever "desktop" you want. It is not even limited to 2 desktops/monitors and jwm is available in every distro from TinyCore and Puppy(default wm) to Ubuntu and Suse.
Here is a thread to on the Puppy forum to use jwm as your complete desktop environment.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51200/
And jwm's homepage
http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/
You can write an extremely fast and powerful (b)ash cgi-script using a properly compiled snapshot of busybox (it will call builtin find, sed, grep... which is much faster than calling separate programs) If you run it on a static webpage using busbox httpd as the server it can even be a function within your server script.
#!/PATH_TO/sh
search()
{
#your code here
}
advanced_search()
{
#your code here
}
restart_server()
{
#your code here
}