IIRC it is also Oxygen rich enough to act as a blood replacement...
perfluorocarbons
Completely fluorinated hydrocarbons (every H replaced by an F). Various suppliers; including 3M (Fluorinert(tm)). It's ozone-friendly. Marketed as electronic coolants, vapor phase soldering gas, and as a blood replacement. I'm not sure where I read about it, but I think there have been experiments with keeping mice alive while breathing oxygenated liquid fluorinert.
Ahhh...good lord the horrible memories...
I still recall when ux4 was so horribly overloaded with idiots on IRC that trying to do any work was next to useless.
Then I discovered how easy it was to crash the whole damn system with a malloc and a fork, then jump back on as soon as it rebooted and start my jobs....
Gotta love UIUC, I cried the day O'Malleys went under....
Yes, Offtopic....
Brings back memories of myself in gradeschool trying to work out the physics of solar sails...Remember well my dad explaining that the thrust would be extremely low, otherwise "Whenever you turn on a flashlight it would blow your ass out the window" (Yes he is twisted also)
Gah, the technology is already there, I worked on and did research for a thermonuclear propulsion project, pellet bed plutonium reactors (using WEAPONS grade plutonium no less) provide a wonderfully high impulse, with hydrogen as the moderator for the core (Bussard Ramjet anyone?). Unfortunately the fightback from the green groups have basically stoppped large scale projects like this in their tracks.......*sob*
I concur!
As a unix admin, I'm constantly typing, be it coding, scripting, fixing problems caused by idiot lusers, etc,etc.
But one thing I do is go to the gym daily and work-out, and yes, the vast majority of people I've seen complaining and wearing wrist-braces do little to no physical activity aside from plonking on their keyboards. Plus, the "don't have the time" excuse doesn't fly, I routinely put in 10-12 hour days and STILL find the time to lift for an hour at the gym.
Christ people, just a little bit of physical work can do wonders! Skip the simpsons and hit the gym!
Personally,
I think they should base this on the relative skill of the admin securing the system. As it is, most NT sysadmins I know/work with are utterly lacking in their ability to keep up to date on security patches/fixes etc.
Then again, I guess their rating is correct, NT is at a higher premium because all those paper waving MCSE's tend to have less security experience overall
(Yah it sounds like flamebait, but this is from my own experience)
This sounds alot like AT&T digital cable. At least in the SanFran area, the devices they use are horribly out of date. I'm not sure what horsepower they have behind their decoders, but there is a noticeable amount of decoding lag when switching channels. And when watching "dark" movies there are quite a lot of MPEG artifacts. Back in chicago the boxes seemed newer, and the lack of artifacts and lag was surprising....
Continues to amaze me how in the seat of technology (the bay area) the tech that is available to consumers is so far behind the times....
Although de-orbiting procedures are painstakingly exact, I'm still mystified by the way the article downplays the land-impact possibilities. While 3/4 of the earth may be water, the atmosphere is still a chaotic environment, and can causing inbound objects to do things you wouldn't quite expect.
(Of course a helmet wouldn't help, I'd most likely be a rapidly expanding cloud of sticky red steam)
OT:Never lost a wink of power in CA during the rolling blackouts....of course, the seawall near my apt collapsed.....
Wow!
The programmers are the only ones that know unix?
I shudder everytime I think of one of our developers trying to 'admin' one of our Solaris systems....
In times past a couple developers setup "unix" boxen, of course the only thing they could install was linux. So sad
Happy days abound when I yank get to yank one of those buggy, non-secured systems and replace it with an actual Sun Server.....
I understand that some startups like to timeslice their developers with admin duties....if they were truly smart, they should bite the bullet, cough up the cash, and hire a dedicated sysadmin, because once they go public, they will realize that those developers aren't really as informed as they thought they were....
(yeah yeah, flamebait. I'm a bit jaded these days)
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IIRC it is also Oxygen rich enough to act as a blood replacement...
perfluorocarbons
Completely fluorinated hydrocarbons (every H replaced by an F). Various suppliers; including 3M (Fluorinert(tm)). It's ozone-friendly. Marketed as electronic coolants, vapor phase soldering gas, and as a blood replacement. I'm not sure where I read about it, but I think there have been experiments with keeping mice alive while breathing oxygenated liquid fluorinert.
Ahhh...good lord the horrible memories...
I still recall when ux4 was so horribly overloaded with idiots on IRC that trying to do any work was next to useless.
Then I discovered how easy it was to crash the whole damn system with a malloc and a fork, then jump back on as soon as it rebooted and start my jobs....
Gotta love UIUC, I cried the day O'Malleys went under....
Yes, Offtopic....
Brings back memories of myself in gradeschool trying to work out the physics of solar sails...Remember well my dad explaining that the thrust would be extremely low, otherwise "Whenever you turn on a flashlight it would blow your ass out the window" (Yes he is twisted also)
Gah, the technology is already there, I worked on and did research for a thermonuclear propulsion project, pellet bed plutonium reactors (using WEAPONS grade plutonium no less) provide a wonderfully high impulse, with hydrogen as the moderator for the core (Bussard Ramjet anyone?). Unfortunately the fightback from the green groups have basically stoppped large scale projects like this in their tracks.......*sob*
I concur!
As a unix admin, I'm constantly typing, be it coding, scripting, fixing problems caused by idiot lusers, etc,etc.
But one thing I do is go to the gym daily and work-out, and yes, the vast majority of people I've seen complaining and wearing wrist-braces do little to no physical activity aside from plonking on their keyboards. Plus, the "don't have the time" excuse doesn't fly, I routinely put in 10-12 hour days and STILL find the time to lift for an hour at the gym.
Christ people, just a little bit of physical work can do wonders! Skip the simpsons and hit the gym!
Personally,
I think they should base this on the relative skill of the admin securing the system. As it is, most NT sysadmins I know/work with are utterly lacking in their ability to keep up to date on security patches/fixes etc.
Then again, I guess their rating is correct, NT is at a higher premium because all those paper waving MCSE's tend to have less security experience overall
(Yah it sounds like flamebait, but this is from my own experience)
Cabal? There is no cabal!
This sounds alot like AT&T digital cable. At least in the SanFran area, the devices they use are horribly out of date. I'm not sure what horsepower they have behind their decoders, but there is a noticeable amount of decoding lag when switching channels. And when watching "dark" movies there are quite a lot of MPEG artifacts. Back in chicago the boxes seemed newer, and the lack of artifacts and lag was surprising.... Continues to amaze me how in the seat of technology (the bay area) the tech that is available to consumers is so far behind the times....
Although de-orbiting procedures are painstakingly exact, I'm still mystified by the way the article downplays the land-impact possibilities. While 3/4 of the earth may be water, the atmosphere is still a chaotic environment, and can causing inbound objects to do things you wouldn't quite expect. (Of course a helmet wouldn't help, I'd most likely be a rapidly expanding cloud of sticky red steam) OT:Never lost a wink of power in CA during the rolling blackouts....of course, the seawall near my apt collapsed.....
The only way I see this happening is if someone brought the machine before the NSA with the power supply removed.... -- Sigmentation fault
Wow! The programmers are the only ones that know unix? I shudder everytime I think of one of our developers trying to 'admin' one of our Solaris systems.... In times past a couple developers setup "unix" boxen, of course the only thing they could install was linux. So sad Happy days abound when I yank get to yank one of those buggy, non-secured systems and replace it with an actual Sun Server..... I understand that some startups like to timeslice their developers with admin duties....if they were truly smart, they should bite the bullet, cough up the cash, and hire a dedicated sysadmin, because once they go public, they will realize that those developers aren't really as informed as they thought they were.... (yeah yeah, flamebait. I'm a bit jaded these days)