My worst computer accident (which was more scary than actually disasterous) took place when I was a student at a certain university on the Strand in London. The fan in one of the physics department's DECstations had died and as a result the machine was overheating and turning itself off, requiring much fscking.
A fellow student and I offered to change the fan, duly ordering a part from RS Components and borrowing a soldering iron from one of the lab technicians. Job done, we decided to test the machine with the cover off to make sure that everything (still) worked. We turned on the machine. Sparks everywhere. We turned off the machine. Sh*t. Then we noticed that the case was silvered on the inside and that because we hadn't screwed down the motherboard, it was short-circuiting in probably a great many places.
We could see that the fuse was blown and decided that replacing it would be a good idea, hoping that this would be the only problem. We asked the technician for a new fuse. The technician told us that it was an imperial (length) fuse and that fuses like that weren't available any more. He gave us a shiny new metric fuse... that didn't fit in the fuse-holder. So he gave us a new fuse-holder as well... which didn't fit the motherboard. Fortunately, being creative young physics students, we were able to fashion a floating (air-cooled?) fuse assembly with the aid of several paperclips.
Miraculously, the DECstation still worked, and the new fan whirred away happily. It didn't stop the machine crashing though - apparently it hadn't been overheating after all.
This is true, but you have to pay more for these tariffs. For example, I pay £17.50 per month line rental for an "old" tariff, the equivalent "new" tariff would cost me around £25 per month. You pays your money and you makes your choice.
Let's just play devil's advocate for a minute. In the UK it used to be the case that you could tell the mobile operator from the dialing code of the number, e.g. 07866 for Orange, 07788 for Vodafone. (This can still be done at UK Phone Information.) This was useful, since many tariffs give you free or cheaper calls to numbers belonging to the same operator. Since numbers became portable, you can no longer make an assumption as to the operator.
While it certainly an advantage for the consumer for his/her number to be portable, it may end up costing him/her more.
Are you sure? In the UK we only have the right to transfer numbers between mobile phone operators. It would be against the UK numbering scheme to transfer numbers between land and mobile operators - all mobile numbers must be of the form 07xxx xxxxxx. See OFTEL for details, although their site is awful!
Actually London numbers are 020 xxxx xxxx. I find it hilarious the number of UK companies who quote their phone number as 0207 (or 0208) xxx xxxx. The 7 or 8 is part of the local code not the area code. Residents of London can simply dial 7xxx xxxx or 8xxx xxxx.
Have any of the modem vendors shown any support for V.92, in particular 3Com US Robotics? If a V.90 modem cannot be upgraded to V.92 by flash then we may have a problem! J
It all depends on what kind of programming you want to do. If you want to do scientific programming then calculus and all sorts of numerical methods are absolutely essential. Numerical Recipes in C provides most of what you'll need to know... but in order to understand what you're doing you'll need to have studied some mathematics at degree level.
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My worst computer accident (which was more scary than actually disasterous) took place when I was a student at a certain university on the Strand in London. The fan in one of the physics department's DECstations had died and as a result the machine was overheating and turning itself off, requiring much fscking.
A fellow student and I offered to change the fan, duly ordering a part from RS Components and borrowing a soldering iron from one of the lab technicians. Job done, we decided to test the machine with the cover off to make sure that everything (still) worked. We turned on the machine. Sparks everywhere. We turned off the machine. Sh*t. Then we noticed that the case was silvered on the inside and that because we hadn't screwed down the motherboard, it was short-circuiting in probably a great many places.
We could see that the fuse was blown and decided that replacing it would be a good idea, hoping that this would be the only problem. We asked the technician for a new fuse. The technician told us that it was an imperial (length) fuse and that fuses like that weren't available any more. He gave us a shiny new metric fuse... that didn't fit in the fuse-holder. So he gave us a new fuse-holder as well... which didn't fit the motherboard. Fortunately, being creative young physics students, we were able to fashion a floating (air-cooled?) fuse assembly with the aid of several paperclips.
Miraculously, the DECstation still worked, and the new fan whirred away happily. It didn't stop the machine crashing though - apparently it hadn't been overheating after all.
This is true, but you have to pay more for these tariffs. For example, I pay £17.50 per month line rental for an "old" tariff, the equivalent "new" tariff would cost me around £25 per month. You pays your money and you makes your choice.
Let's just play devil's advocate for a minute. In the UK it used to be the case that you could tell the mobile operator from the dialing code of the number, e.g. 07866 for Orange, 07788 for Vodafone. (This can still be done at UK Phone Information.) This was useful, since many tariffs give you free or cheaper calls to numbers belonging to the same operator. Since numbers became portable, you can no longer make an assumption as to the operator.
While it certainly an advantage for the consumer for his/her number to be portable, it may end up costing him/her more.
Are you sure? In the UK we only have the right to transfer numbers between mobile phone operators. It would be against the UK numbering scheme to transfer numbers between land and mobile operators - all mobile numbers must be of the form 07xxx xxxxxx. See OFTEL for details, although their site is awful!
Actually London numbers are 020 xxxx xxxx. I find it hilarious the number of UK companies who quote their phone number as 0207 (or 0208) xxx xxxx. The 7 or 8 is part of the local code not the area code. Residents of London can simply dial 7xxx xxxx or 8xxx xxxx.
Actually the European Space Operations Centre is at Darmstadt in Germany.
J
This plan will include the distribution of government-provided software to help clean up insecure Windows installations.
Clean up eh? And have a poke around at the same time, no doubt. Hmm...
J
Stopping infirtile people from having children isn't going to solve anything.
What would be the point in stopping an infertile couple from having children? The argument is that we should not enable them to have children.
If you were building The Matrix: NT or Unix? (I thought so :)
No.
To be exact, it's the just first movement (quite short) of a nine movement work.
No, NEdit is for programmers who need a decent syntax-highlighting editor and like the benefits of window-based applications.
Have any of the modem vendors shown any support for V.92, in particular 3Com US Robotics? If a V.90 modem cannot be upgraded to V.92 by flash then we may have a problem! J
I make that about 7.5 - 8 weeks of music... give or take! J
It all depends on what kind of programming you want to do. If you want to do scientific programming then calculus and all sorts of numerical methods are absolutely essential. Numerical Recipes in C provides most of what you'll need to know... but in order to understand what you're doing you'll need to have studied some mathematics at degree level.