1. A hole in the roof of a cave passage that may be either a rather large blind roof pocket or a tributary inlet shaft into the cave system. A feature described as an aven when seen from below may equally be described as shaft when seen from above, and the naming of such a feature commonly depends purely upon the direction of exploration.
Aquamole Aven, as its name suggests, was discovered by cave divers who then climbed upwards until they could join up with a surface dig .
As I mentioned, one of the uses of cave radio is to locate the point vertically above on the surface.
for half an hour with a transmitter waiting for my friends on the surface to radio-locate the position on the surface vertically above me.
The transmitter fits in a 6 inch diameter tube - you'd never get an antenna like the one in the photo down a Yorkshire cave. The one used on the surface is much bigger, though.
The next project is to produce a cheap transmitter that a cave diver can carry into an aven and leave (they don't want to have to hang around), in the hope that once located a dig can be done from the surface directly above.
is that why you're always misplacing your keys and finding the phone in the fridge?
I'm an old fart - I've programmed with punch tape and core memory. My first computer had 3520 bytes of RAM.
I'm noticing the same problems. A while ago I started a new job, and had to start making my own sandwiches for lunch. I made some the night before, and put them in the fridge. So that I couldn't leave them behind, I put the car keys in with them. The next morning I spent half an hour searching for the keys, and was late in for work. Fortunately I'm now working for an old friend in his small family scientific instrument making business, so I could get away with it.
Here's an old article about Belkin doing a very similar thing: Belkin, the consumer networking and connectivity firm, has promised customers a firmware upgrade to disable a controversial 'spamming' feature built into its routers.
As first reported on The Reg last week, the feature hijacks random HTTP requests every eight hours and redirects users to a page advertising Belkin's parental control software. There is an opt-out link but that failed to appease Net users who accused Belkin of creating a new mechanism for spam.
Here's a link to a copy of the article in Personal Computer World magazine, November 1996 which describes the research work done by Chris Winter and others at British Telecom's Martlesham Heath research labs on such a device.
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The trick when driving to try and iron out these hold-ups is to keep the traffic moving, by slowing down well in advance and leaving a large gap. As soon as the impatient and selfish start driving inches behind the car in front the whole system grinds to a halt.
... Paul Quirk, who also said it would be 'an insult' to record stores. Record stores? If the recording industry is genuinely interested in record stores
(as opposed to on-line sellers of bit-streams or supermarkets selling just the top 20),
why has yet another chain
of decent record shops closed today in the UK? Perhaps he really means "a danger to my company's profits".
The HP link also indicates the nature of the problem, which should not be OS specific:
This Intel microcode update addresses an improper Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) invalidation that may result in unpredictable system behavior such as system hangs or incorrect data.
This recent posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List by Andi Kleen states that Linux is not affected.
> It's been a while; is there any sign of the ucode updates being > available, especially in light of the C2D/Q incorrect TLB invalidation > + recent ucode to fix this?
That microcode update is not needed on any recent Linux kernel; it flushes the TLBs in a way that is fine.
In 1993, the Birmingham, UK, radio station BRMB
was fined £
15000 and
had to pay "substantial" damages in a similar competition where the last person
left sitting on a block of dry ice was the winner. Contestants suffered severe
frostbite and required extensive skin grafts.
GROLIES: Guardian[1] Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt
LOBNH: Lights On But Nobody Home
CNS-QNS: Central Nervous System - Quantity Not Sufficient
and the technomage Galen (Woodward) are returning.
That's Peter Woodward
who played Galen, as opposed to the more famous
Edward Woodward (of Wicker Man fame),
who also played a technomage (Alwyn, of the Golden Dragons) in the episode
The Long Road
Ms Maguire has claimed that John Gill, of Drumline, Newmarket on Fergus, defamed her by posting offensive remarks on rateyoursolicitor.com. Mr Gill, chairman of the Victims of the Legal Profession Society, denied that anything concerning Ms Maguire was published or posted on the site.
The postings under the name of "John Gill" on rateyoursolicitor, about several different solicitors, are so
offensive and far-fetched that I cannot see that any sensible person would take them seriously.
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A possible solution for some distributions would be rPath's rBuilder Online, a tool whose use is free for non-commercial purposes and which allows users to build their own distribution using a repository of the Conary packaging system.
Alternatively, use the Rock Linux Distribution
Build Kit, licensed under the GPL
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1. A hole in the roof of a cave passage that may be either a rather large blind roof pocket or a tributary inlet shaft into the cave system. A feature described as an aven when seen from below may equally be described as shaft when seen from above, and the naming of such a feature commonly depends purely upon the direction of exploration.
Aquamole Aven, as its name suggests, was discovered by cave divers who then
climbed upwards until they could join up with a surface dig .
As I mentioned, one of the uses of cave radio is to locate the point vertically above on the surface.
Whilst there are places which open up, the part of the cave we wanted to locate was a lot less than 2m wide and high.
for half an hour with a transmitter waiting for my friends on the surface to radio-locate the position on the surface vertically above me.
The transmitter fits in a 6 inch diameter tube - you'd never get an antenna like the one in the photo down a Yorkshire cave. The one used on the surface is much bigger, though.
The next project is to produce a cheap transmitter that a cave diver can carry into an aven and leave (they don't want to have to hang around), in the hope that once located a dig can be done from the surface directly above.
Here's a links to a UK cave radio web site
http://caves.org.uk/radio/
Well how about this then? It can blow down a house of bricks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAyd4WnvhU
LANG=C grep -v "[^qwertyuiop]"
Coincidence? I think not.
And why does it take forever if you don't have a vanilla $LANG?
is that why you're always misplacing your keys and finding the phone in the fridge?
I'm an old fart - I've programmed with punch tape and core memory. My first computer had 3520 bytes of RAM.
I'm noticing the same problems. A while ago I started a new job, and had to start making my own sandwiches for lunch. I made some the night before, and put them in the fridge. So that I couldn't leave them behind, I put the car keys in with them. The next morning I spent half an hour searching for the keys, and was late in for work. Fortunately I'm now working for an old friend in his small family scientific instrument making business, so I could get away with it.
Here's an old article about Belkin doing a very similar thing:
Belkin, the consumer networking and connectivity firm, has promised customers a firmware upgrade to disable a controversial 'spamming' feature built into its routers.
As first reported on The Reg last week, the feature hijacks random HTTP requests every eight hours and redirects users to a page advertising Belkin's parental control software. There is an opt-out link but that failed to appease Net users who accused Belkin of creating a new mechanism for spam.
Phase 1) Allow Microsoft to indulge in their usual anti-competitive behaviour.
Phase 2) Prosecute them.
Phase 3) $1.4bn profit!
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/09/2145236
Coincidentally, I started reading it last night, so a review will have to wait weeks/months(/years?)
Here's a link to a copy of the article in Personal Computer World magazine, November 1996 which describes the research work done by Chris Winter and others at British Telecom's Martlesham Heath research labs on such a device.
http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2045102/cutting-edge-futures-brain-drain
The Eee PC uses unionfs to merge together two partitions: sda1 (/mnt-system, 2.3GB, read-only) and sda2 (/mnt-user, 1.4GB, read-write)
There is a grub boot option "Restore Factory Settings" which wipes the user part.
Deleting installed applications doesn't free up any space - it just marks them as deleted on the user partition.
The trick when driving to try and iron out these hold-ups is to keep the traffic moving, by slowing down well in advance and leaving a large gap. As soon as the impatient and selfish start driving inches behind the car in front the whole system grinds to a halt.
W3C says that the page isn't valid HTML - does that invalidate their claim?
*Waves*
IIRC, I subscribed after my brother e-mailed me Slashdot's URL. I can't remember anything about Chips'n'Dips.
Another question.
When did slashdot start probing ports 81, 8080, 1080, 444 and 1026 before allowing posting?
... Paul Quirk, who also said it would be 'an insult' to record stores. Record stores? If the recording industry is genuinely interested in record stores (as opposed to on-line sellers of bit-streams or supermarkets selling just the top 20), why has yet another chain of decent record shops closed today in the UK? Perhaps he really means "a danger to my company's profits".Old Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch on the subject of judges ignorant of technology.
In 1993, the Birmingham, UK, radio station BRMB was fined £ 15000 and had to pay "substantial" damages in a similar competition where the last person left sitting on a block of dry ice was the winner. Contestants suffered severe frostbite and required extensive skin grafts.
GROLIES: Guardian[1] Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt
LOBNH: Lights On But Nobody Home
CNS-QNS: Central Nervous System - Quantity Not Sufficient
[1] UK left wing newspaper
The cached results of a google search for John Gill at that site turns up several hits, including a link to a letter from Woods, Ahern and Mullen solicitors threatening action against John Gill if "offending entries" are not "deleted" from "his website" (Could that be CrookedLawyers.com?).
The postings under the name of "John Gill" on rateyoursolicitor, about several different solicitors, are so offensive and far-fetched that I cannot see that any sensible person would take them seriously.
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