Tried it once. Failed miserably. Not due to contamination, but from damaging some of the internal hardware. I did hear a story once of a local tech who managed to swap spindles without the help of a cleanroom, back when 40 and 80 meg drives were the norm. It worked for just long enough to back up the data, and then failed permanently.
My attempt was actually more of a clean bench than a clean room... it was a plastic-enclosed work area kept positively pressurized with filtered air. I think it did a good job preventing contamination, but I just didn't have the elbow room to work on the drives properly. Lost a few days worth of source code, but it could have been worse.
Not too practical with read-only tags. But you can always stick MORE tags on something!
Reminds me of the days when I used to work in a retail software outlet in the mall... we'd scatter the adhesive anti-theft tags sticky-side-up around the common area of the mall, where they'd get sat on, or stepped on, or otherwise stuck to unsuspecting shoppers. Loads of fun.
Take a few hours to look around the National Cryptologic Museum. Lots of good geeky stuff there, plus NSA shirts and stuff. =] It's actually a lot more informative than I expected. I was imagining lots of poorly lit exhibits with every third word blanked out on the placard, but it's not quite so bad. Though the memorial to lost agents has a whole lot of missing names. You even get to play with a genuine Enigma machine...
Very true. Just ask anyone who's responsible for email at a military base. People inadvertently compile classified messages from multiple unclassified sources all the time.
This invariably comes to light about 4:00 PM on a Friday when the MIS staff is just about to go home...
I think I must have walked by that place a few times. Ok, I'm sure I must have, since I spent like four days there and the strip is about a block long.
Paihia is also the only place I (a 26-year resident of California) have ever had a 'California-style' pizza. With lamb, of course. No beetroot, thank God. What is it with you Kiwis and beetroot?
My advice to anyone stopping there - avoid the local pub, it sucks. Check out Hostel Row... I hung out at the Pipi Patch Lodge and met all sorts of interesting people. Good beer, too, and much cheaper than the pub on the main strip.
Developed this one myself - it's quicker and easier than ice cream and it's very good.
2 cups low-pulp orange juice 1 cup sugar
Mix sugar and orange juice. In a large wooden or plastic bowl (metal sticks too much), slowly stir in liquid nitrogen until the desired consistency is reached.
I'd also recomment using a wooden spoon. I used a hand mixer once, and due to the low viscosity of liquid nitrogen, it spewed droplets everywhere.
One of these days I want to try making deep-fried liquid nitrogen ice cream. My goal is to get an 800 degree F temperature span in the making of the stuff.
Remember, be careful with the LN2. It's easy to over-freeze stuff. I once got my tongue stuck to a frozen banana, and it was rather painful.
Who are in turn like children, wanting everything right now. The trick is just giving them what they need.
When you told them it'd take six weeks, you didn't actually mean six weeks, did you?
Still, I'd be pissed if my employer told me I'd be working 12 hours a day. That could equal almost THREE HOURS of productive work per day!
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Yeah, what's the GPL got to say on comments? Are they afforded the same protection as functional code? I put a lot of thought into my comments, on the rare occasions I write any. I once commented a project for a client entirely in haiku. No one ever said anything./* Comments in haiku Not for any good reason I was simply bored */
Yeah, and it wouldn't be funny in a discussion on cancer, or AIDS, or starving third-world children. Midgets are a bit of a gray area. But we're talking about old people, so it's funny. So there.
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With all these old folks posting on Slashdot? Don't they know it's a site for young people? Sheesh, go hang out on cnn.com, grandpa.
Nonsense. I can illuminate a Latin text, or any other text for that matter, with a common 40-watt Halogen light. Such illumination is far beyond anything the ancient scribes could have accomplished with candles or oil lamps, and poses less of a fire hazard.
I was using computers regularly by the second grade, and my handwriting ability probably peaked in about the third or fourth grade. I'm not saying there's any connection - I can't even draw recognizable stick figures, and I don't blame that on the computer - but typing all of my school papers probably deprived me of some handwriting practice I would otherwise have had. Not that it's terribly relevant today. It would have been more helpful to have keyboarding at an early age, since by the time I got to high school I was already typing 40 wpm or so with two fingers and had to un-learn years of bad technique.
Being a typical/. geek, most of my dates I meet online. When browsing through personals, it's not the content that I'm initially looking for, it's coherent writing and proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar. If they can't manage that, I just don't bother.
And anyone who's ever played SimCity 3000 will tell you that it's a whole lot easier to build and maintain a single nuclear plant than a zillion wind turbines.
The world's entire energy requirements could be met with 1 KW Honda portable generators, too. That doesn't mean it would be practical or economical to do so.
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Are still using their Commodore 64's.
Tried it once. Failed miserably. Not due to contamination, but from damaging some of the internal hardware. I did hear a story once of a local tech who managed to swap spindles without the help of a cleanroom, back when 40 and 80 meg drives were the norm. It worked for just long enough to back up the data, and then failed permanently.
My attempt was actually more of a clean bench than a clean room... it was a plastic-enclosed work area kept positively pressurized with filtered air. I think it did a good job preventing contamination, but I just didn't have the elbow room to work on the drives properly. Lost a few days worth of source code, but it could have been worse.
Not too practical with read-only tags. But you can always stick MORE tags on something!
Reminds me of the days when I used to work in a retail software outlet in the mall... we'd scatter the adhesive anti-theft tags sticky-side-up around the common area of the mall, where they'd get sat on, or stepped on, or otherwise stuck to unsuspecting shoppers. Loads of fun.
See the story of Captain Midnight and HBO..
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Very true. Just ask anyone who's responsible for email at a military base. People inadvertently compile classified messages from multiple unclassified sources all the time.
This invariably comes to light about 4:00 PM on a Friday when the MIS staff is just about to go home...
And how do you say 'wonky' and make it sound French? =]
Sea Bass extinction? That's easy to avoid... just strap some freakin' "lasers" to their heads.
Paihia is also the only place I (a 26-year resident of California) have ever had a 'California-style' pizza. With lamb, of course. No beetroot, thank God. What is it with you Kiwis and beetroot?
My advice to anyone stopping there - avoid the local pub, it sucks. Check out Hostel Row... I hung out at the Pipi Patch Lodge and met all sorts of interesting people. Good beer, too, and much cheaper than the pub on the main strip.
Gotta love that 'chip-scale' packaging. I now have at least two Analog Devices accelerometers lost on my workbench.
I think I may have accidentally inhaled one.
Battleship anchor? I've already got one of those. Except it's labeled DEC VAX 6000-510...
This thing doesn't happen to say 'ACME' on the side, does it?
Developed this one myself - it's quicker and easier than ice cream and it's very good.
2 cups low-pulp orange juice
1 cup sugar
Mix sugar and orange juice. In a large wooden or plastic bowl (metal sticks too much), slowly stir in liquid nitrogen until the desired consistency is reached.
I'd also recomment using a wooden spoon. I used a hand mixer once, and due to the low viscosity of liquid nitrogen, it spewed droplets everywhere.
One of these days I want to try making deep-fried liquid nitrogen ice cream. My goal is to get an 800 degree F temperature span in the making of the stuff.
Remember, be careful with the LN2. It's easy to over-freeze stuff. I once got my tongue stuck to a frozen banana, and it was rather painful.
MY EARS!!! MY EARS!!!
That is so very, very wrong. What the HELL was Nimoy thinking, and why did anyone let him do it?!?!
Who are in turn like children, wanting everything right now. The trick is just giving them what they need.
When you told them it'd take six weeks, you didn't actually mean six weeks, did you?
Still, I'd be pissed if my employer told me I'd be working 12 hours a day. That could equal almost THREE HOURS of productive work per day!
Yeah, what's the GPL got to say on comments? Are they afforded the same protection as functional code? I put a lot of thought into my comments, on the rare occasions I write any. I once commented a project for a client entirely in haiku. No one ever said anything. /*
Comments in haiku
Not for any good reason
I was simply bored
*/
Yeah, and it wouldn't be funny in a discussion on cancer, or AIDS, or starving third-world children. Midgets are a bit of a gray area. But we're talking about old people, so it's funny. So there.
With all these old folks posting on Slashdot? Don't they know it's a site for young people? Sheesh, go hang out on cnn.com, grandpa.
Well, I've never tried an .exe, but I remember doing a .com file that way - I think it was a total of about 10 bytes and simply rebooted the machine.
Bah, debug is for wimps. Real programmers use 'copy con program.exe'.
Nonsense. I can illuminate a Latin text, or any other text for that matter, with a common 40-watt Halogen light. Such illumination is far beyond anything the ancient scribes could have accomplished with candles or oil lamps, and poses less of a fire hazard.
I was using computers regularly by the second grade, and my handwriting ability probably peaked in about the third or fourth grade. I'm not saying there's any connection - I can't even draw recognizable stick figures, and I don't blame that on the computer - but typing all of my school papers probably deprived me of some handwriting practice I would otherwise have had. Not that it's terribly relevant today. It would have been more helpful to have keyboarding at an early age, since by the time I got to high school I was already typing 40 wpm or so with two fingers and had to un-learn years of bad technique.
Being a typical /. geek, most of my dates I meet online. When browsing through personals, it's not the content that I'm initially looking for, it's coherent writing and proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar. If they can't manage that, I just don't bother.
And anyone who's ever played SimCity 3000 will tell you that it's a whole lot easier to build and maintain a single nuclear plant than a zillion wind turbines.
The world's entire energy requirements could be met with 1 KW Honda portable generators, too. That doesn't mean it would be practical or economical to do so.