I still have my vernier caliper. The nice thing about vernier calipers is that they do not grow legs and walk off. Digital one seem to have this capability.
I upgraded my laptop from Fedora 20 to Fedora 22 with great difficulty. I do a complete re-install of my OS on its partition, as you note. My main problems were that the wireless did not work during the intall, and that Bluetooth did not work once I was installed. It all is working very nicely now, but I have been running Linux for over twenty years. Fedora 20 could be installed by an ordinary mortal. Fedora 22 requires a second computer with an internet connection, and some geek skills.
Fedora 22 would not recognize the primary hard drive of my desktop. I am thinking hard about Ubuntu. I plan to download Fedora 23 and see if they have fixed it.
Most high speed piston engined aircraft during WWII used thrust from their exhausts to increase speed. I cannot imagine why you would direct a turbo-prop's thrust anywhere other than to the rear.
Lots of WWII radiators generated little or no drag. The P-51 Mustang's radiator actually was sort of a jet engine, expanding its cooling air through a nozzle in the rear, generating zero net drag.
The structure was balsa wood sandwiched between layers of hardwood. This is now the Mosquito was built. From the photos, it appears the ailerons are fabric covered. This was typical of late thirties aircraft. The allies replaced their fabric covered ailerons with metal ones during the war because they did not work at high speeds. I don't think the Germans did.
Formal certification and licensing normally implies two things. You have the knowledge to do the job, and you are professional enough to be trusted. Read up on Professional Engineers.
If you have an association that certifies system administrators, computer repair people and other computer administrators, I would think your primary focus would be on ethical and professional conduct. Joe Blow knows how to fix/administer your computers, and he will keep your secrets and systematically act in your interests. He can be trusted with access to your network, your computers and to your hard drives. The idiot in the article above, is not certifiable.
I do not like the idea of my laptop having an entry that activates my camera or anything else.
Right now, I run Linux, and I encrypt my/home partition. I need a Linux sticker to put on it to show that this computer is guaranteed to not work in the hands of a computer thief.
WordPerfect is completely different from Microsoft Word in terms of data format. ApplixWare, StarOffice and AbiWord are much more similar, and do a much better job of importing Word files.
The real issue there is that Word is becoming the document format of choice. Since Word is closed proprietary, you need Microsoft Word to generate it.
I just checked Richard Stallman's article, with that horrible login message from the University of Chicago (?). It was practically indentical to the one the FBI recommended to the guy who wrote the article on Root Prompt on being cracked.
There are a bunch of issues here. The whole point of copyright is that if you create something, you have a right to define how it gets used. You can require your readers and/or users to do something completely idiotic if you want, and they have to right to not use it.
The concept of time limited, updateable textbooks is actually interesting. My twenty year old college textbooks are on my shelves at work, where I use them for reference. An update feature would be really nice, especially if it is available to someone who is poking around my mouth with medical instruments. I would revolt at the $1200US annual price though.
Colleges have the option of not using these services if they are against the interests of the students.
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This story is old. I posted the following on eng-tips.com two years ago.
https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=427361
The picture does not look like one of a functional aircraft.
I still have my vernier caliper. The nice thing about vernier calipers is that they do not grow legs and walk off. Digital one seem to have this capability.
I upgraded my laptop from Fedora 20 to Fedora 22 with great difficulty. I do a complete re-install of my OS on its partition, as you note. My main problems were that the wireless did not work during the intall, and that Bluetooth did not work once I was installed. It all is working very nicely now, but I have been running Linux for over twenty years. Fedora 20 could be installed by an ordinary mortal. Fedora 22 requires a second computer with an internet connection, and some geek skills.
Fedora 22 would not recognize the primary hard drive of my desktop. I am thinking hard about Ubuntu. I plan to download Fedora 23 and see if they have fixed it.
Most high speed piston engined aircraft during WWII used thrust from their exhausts to increase speed. I cannot imagine why you would direct a turbo-prop's thrust anywhere other than to the rear.
Lots of WWII radiators generated little or no drag. The P-51 Mustang's radiator actually was sort of a jet engine, expanding its cooling air through a nozzle in the rear, generating zero net drag.
The structure was balsa wood sandwiched between layers of hardwood. This is now the Mosquito was built. From the photos, it appears the ailerons are fabric covered. This was typical of late thirties aircraft. The allies replaced their fabric covered ailerons with metal ones during the war because they did not work at high speeds. I don't think the Germans did.
Formal certification and licensing normally implies two things. You have the knowledge to do the job, and you are professional enough to be trusted. Read up on Professional Engineers.
If you have an association that certifies system administrators, computer repair people and other computer administrators, I would think your primary focus would be on ethical and professional conduct. Joe Blow knows how to fix/administer your computers, and he will keep your secrets and systematically act in your interests. He can be trusted with access to your network, your computers and to your hard drives. The idiot in the article above, is not certifiable.
I do not like the idea of my laptop having an entry that activates my camera or anything else.
Right now, I run Linux, and I encrypt my /home partition. I need a Linux sticker to put on it to show that this computer is guaranteed to not work in the hands of a computer thief.
Cougar1,
WordPerfect is completely different from Microsoft Word in terms of data format. ApplixWare, StarOffice and AbiWord are much more similar, and do a much better job of importing Word files.
The real issue there is that Word is becoming the document format of choice. Since Word is closed proprietary, you need Microsoft Word to generate it.
JHG
I just checked Richard Stallman's article, with that horrible login message from the University of Chicago (?). It was practically indentical to the one the FBI recommended to the guy who wrote the article on Root Prompt on being cracked.
There are a bunch of issues here. The whole point of copyright is that if you create something, you have a right to define how it gets used. You can require your readers and/or users to do something completely idiotic if you want, and they have to right to not use it.
The concept of time limited, updateable textbooks is actually interesting. My twenty year old college textbooks are on my shelves at work, where I use them for reference. An update feature would be really nice, especially if it is available to someone who is poking around my mouth with medical instruments. I would revolt at the $1200US annual price though.
Colleges have the option of not using these services if they are against the interests of the students.