* fun to drive (german engineering) * available from small Golf, sedan Jetta, wagon JettaWagen or trendy NewBug * very safe (tons of safety features by default) * lotsa torque (you drive torque, not horsepower) * great mileage (EPA certifies 49 hwy, 42 city) * you can run on BioDiesel (all or mixture of BioD + diesel) * soon, Diesel in the US will be very clean (extra low sulphur diesel, like in Europe and Japan) * diesel is proven technology * 700 miles on one tank (some guys get 1000 miles) * diesel fuel has waaay stabler price (no high huckups) than gas * low maintenance (no sparkplugs, longer oil change intervals...) * engines made by Audi engineers * you can easily tinker the engine yourself:)
MUMPS used to be first a language, then an OS + a language, then a language + database....
MUMPS is very used in Healthcare industry. It's from before the internet.
Intersystems is a company that sells you the MUMPS set (database, language...) and runs on *nix, Windows and Linux (on Linux since 1998, IIRC). Intersystems sells it as a Post-relational Database System. They usualy advertise on Linux magazines, with an image of a 1/2 truck + 1/2 racing car. Or 1/2 cargo animal + 1/2 cheetah.
MUMPS has also been called M, OpenM... and now it's called CACHE.
It's very robust, fast (as it has been developed and debugged for decades). MUMPS is used when you absolutely cannot go down and you cannot loose data and you need huge amount of records and you need to access the data fast. Like, say, patient data for milions of patients, data from the last 15 years.
I've usualy seen MUMPS applications run in terminal emulations. 5 (?) years ago, some module was released to run those apps as Windows-clients (GUI app) or on Browser-clients (Web App).
See http://www.intersystems.com/
Note: I don't work for Intersystems nor I own intersystem's stock. I've worked "side-by-side" with MUMPS systems on a big organization for several years. Zero problems, amazing speed while dealing with massive amounts of data. I was impressed with it, as you can tell. Then I learned that it runs on Linux as well. Life was good. Now, I don't work there (wrong career move!) and I see the difference everyday.
For some obscure reason, my true experiences in how Linux Desktop Distributions are nowadays ready for the desktop, get modded as Flamebait.
If you don't like them, tough. I'm no elite hacker or whatnot, and I don't need to be an elite hacker. I don't brag about how I compiled everything, I don't need to. I don't brag about how arcane can I be on the command line, I don't need to. I use my Linux and I am productive, which is on topic.
Oh, wait! I forgot that this was Slashdot.
Neeeevermiiiiind.
Next time I got something intelligent to say, I'll say it to myself.
Q. Have you ever installed an ATAPI CD burner? A. Yes. Many times. It always worked. I had to do *zero* kernel compilations or other messy stuff. The procedure: get a PC with CD-RW. Pop in Mandrake CD. Install Linux. All works out of the box.
Q. nVidia GeForce card? A. For non-accelerated drivers, it worked out of the box. For 3D acceleration, I went to nvidia.com, downloaded a file, followed web-based instructions, and... bam! It's working. No magic, really.
Q. Scanner? A. I don't have an scanner, so I don't know.
Q. Web cam? A. Yes. I have a USB WebCam. Mandrake always detects it and configures it no problem without my intervention.
In short, one thing. Do you want to use Linux in the desktop? Then get yourself a Desktop Linux Distribution.
Most probably you are using Debian or Gentoo or Slackware because it's kwel and 1337. Or maybe you are using a 5.2 Red Hat. Too bad. Because Linux is Linux is Linux. So, Linux + Desktop = Mandrake.
SCO has not demonstrated that any infringement exists, nor has it established that it owns derivative works in UNIX. Nothing has been proven to establish that such a license is needed.
The Consumer has had, it's having and will have plenty of Linux (including Red Hat Linux, of course) with all the media attention. Yes, local and national media are printing, broadcasting... more and more stuff about Linux this days. (stop reading Slashdot! buy a local newspaper! turn on TV!)
Even my in-laws call me, snail-mail me or email me (now it's pretty often, so it's getting annoying!) when they see something about Linux in the news/local newspapers etc etc. "Joe Localbusinessman switched to Leenux and saved millions" "Local geeks help networking local highschool with Lunix" "I make coffee with Leh-nucks and it tastes beter".
Yes, Linux is getting there. The average Joe Sixpack is reading about Linux in his local newspaper, local TV and seeing the local politicians talk about Loonix, as a measure to save money to the State. "Mmmm, if Lunix can save money to the State, what about my home? "
And Joe Sixpack hasn't ever never really bought any boxed Windows. Joe will get his Linux where he got his Windows: at the local computer shoppe (with the wizzy guy), buying a HP-Compaq preloaded with Linux, through the kids (bittorrent, kazaa... maybe even ftp!) or some guy from work will hand him a copuple of CDs with "Red Hat Linux 10".
This is going to happen in the near future. Mark my words. And, if it doesn't happen, you can get your money back.;)
Everything is available, yes. But you need the time to hunt, gather, compile, test, modify, compile, test, fix, compile, test, patch, compile, test and yet test again.
Are you in the government?
Because, of course, in your company you have the time, personnel and money to do all the testing required to find a good mix of the different versions of tools and programs, so the OS is rock solid, fast, uses advanced features (in a stable and controlled way) from unstable branches. And then, just like RedHat, give to the community thoussand of lines of code, tools, documentation...
In my company, the goal is *not* to build an efficient OS. The goal is make the company more productive. To get an stable & efficient OS, we use the expertise, personnel, resources and money from Red Hat. Why re-invent the wheel?
Do you really go through all the pain of maintaining your own Linux distribution? Then I say you are wasting resources. You could be doing something productive, say, implementing more services, building internal content management, improving the company workflow and thinking ahead.
Just "building our OS" is a way to throw resources (money and men-hour) away.
"Fixing" is not just "compiling a new binary". Maybe SCO does that. Linux companies test those binaries and the interaction of the new binaries with the rest of elements of their distribution.
Your company, with the neatest and geekiest OS is doomed, as you are burning money no-sense.
It looks like you are a little detached from (corporate) reality.
Someone should fire whoever is in charge of your IT department for gross missuse of resources, inappropiate understanding of the company strategy and by not understanding the current IT reality.
Wake up before is too late!
And, yeah, the old gcc-2.96 FUD. All those uninformed morons crying because they had less than perfect code. Previous gcc versions were more forgiving with errors. gcc-2.96 was more strict with errors, aside of actualy working the same while compiling code for different archs. IF you really check the facts, you will see that the ones who complained to gcc-2.96, later changed their mind as they understood what was all about. Ans that version was released as no current gcc was capable of delivering a stable, workable, multi-arch compiler. Ah, the beauty of Open Source! Of course, the "Red Hat is Microsoft" voices still are singing that old and FUDed song today. Now, gcc-3.x is even more strict than 2.96, lots of code shows as "broken" with gcc-3.x, but of course, now everybody reads the accompaining documentation and is forced to write better code AND this is not a Red Hat thinggy.
Paying so much more for a few little kernel config options, their claim that it is more 'stable', the Red Hat layer of obfuscation over the text files in/etc, and the RPM jail in the long run can make administration as problematic as one of those sick little MSWindows Wizards
cow manure!
Obviously you've never seen/used/pushed-to-the-limit a RH AS 2.1 in a big machine (many CPs, several GBs RAM, external storage, cluster environments). And, my guess, is that you've never gotten into serious Windows server administration past the 'use the wizard'.
Repeat after me: my home machine is not an enterprise computing system.
Please, FUD somewhere else.
Peace --
Re:The headline says it all...
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Today's SCO News
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NDS/eDirectory is based on LDAP. It's not OpenLDAP.
GNU/Linux ships OpenLDAP, an open implementation of the LDAP protocol implementation. It's still very rough, though.
On the other hand, Novell ships eDirectory, which is a much improved, time-tested implementation of LDAP protocol.
Believe it or not, NDS/eDirectory is much better than OpenLDAP. Work with both, for at least a year, with scores of hundreds of users... and then, you tell me.
As for what can Novell bring to GNU/Linux... well, IBM has helped improve GNU/Linux. Sun has helped improve GNU/Linux. Oracle has helped improve GNU/Linux. HP has helped improve GNU/Linux. SGI has helped improve GNU/Linux...
We cannot know for sure, that's right. But a reasonable assumption, with the knowledge in hand of what has already happened, there's a good chance that GNU/Linux will benefit from Novell.
Why some people are affraid of companies investing in Linux?
Comparing OpenLDAP to NDS/eDirectory is wrong. OpenLDAP is there, yes... but pales in comparison with eDirectory/NDS.
Novell was already delivering a very mature and advanced directory services (NDS) when Linux's OpenLDAP was very beta and Microsoft Directory was... well, vastly improvable;)
Linux *now* is pretty good. But Novell already was much better some years ago.
If Novell puts its knowledge into GNU/Linux so we all profit (Novell grows, Linux gets waaaaaaaaay better, Novell admin tools become GPL and we all improve them) then we all win, and win big.
P.S.: I'm a former Novell Admin, turned into Linux Admin as Microsoft Marketing Division pushed away Novell. I'd love to work with GNU/Linux/Novell systems:)
I guess you've never heard of VIFFing maneuvering, the "Vector In Forward Flight"-
Harrier is a V/STOL airplane, and it can use the vertical thrust jets in combat, so it can "jump" (climb or descend or turn) a bunch of hundreds of feet in a split second. Talk about air combat advantage!
Also, the Harrier is a small jet (difficult to sea and to aim to) and has no afterburner (difficult to get a lock-on with heat-seaker missiles).
Harrier pilots are trained in this. At least the Royal Navy pilots. Royal Navy use Sea Harriers as fighters.
The Harrier can be an "old" jet, but it does the job. (BTW, The newest Sea Harrier, the FA2 model, are from 1993, so they are 10 years old).
If talking about missile exchange, VIFFing comes handy to avoid incomming missiles. Also, Royal Navy Sea Harriers can use the AIM-120 AMRAAM, wich is about the best mid-range missile around.
Some links: http://www.f4aviation.co.uk/Hangar/2003/sh ars/shar s.htm http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects /fa2/ http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/1 72.html http://members.tripod.com/benno7/id32.htm
- you get an email when the distro is ready - click on the URL in the email to the ftp links for MDK-Club members - Download your ISOs at ~3000 KBit/s (yes, 1 iso = 30 minutes) - Access to campus.mandrakeclub.com - get discounts for Mandrake products and others (Win4Lin, Opera...)
I'm not talking about "instant milleage". The 50 mpg is what I got after driving on highway for around 800 miles. Let me pull out the numbers from my spreadsheet:
Total miles: 1012.7 mi Total Fuel: 19.475 g milleage: 52 mpg
So I was wrong. It was 52 mpg:)
And, AFAIK, Toledo and Jetta have the same engine (Seat is part of the Audi-VW-Skoda-Seat thing). Seat engines use the same TDi technology than the VW. TDi was developed by Audi in the first place:)
And, anyway, I cannot get a Toledo in the US. And in the US, a VW is ~ the same price of a Honda Accord with the same load of features (manual transmission, security features, abs, disc brakes on both trains, 10 year extended warranty, road assistance...).
And the VW is a German car, if you know what I mean. An Accord is not half the fun. Your Toledo, being designed by German engineers, qualifies as German, so the fun you have with it is the same that I have.
Then, how clean is Diesel around the UK? Surrey is in the UK, IIRC my ancient history classes...
Note: I just wish that fuel be more expensive in the US, so SUV people would be forced to pay a price for the insanity of driving those monsters (12 mpg!!!!!!). Even at this cheap price, I'm saving $2000 on a 5-year period comparing with an Accord.
I drive a VW Jetta TDi car, that is, a Diesel car. I can get 50mpg on highway driving at normal speed.
When speeding (I've done 115mph and there was some more left) and doing mostly city traffic I go down to only 44 mpg.
In Germany they have the VW Lupo, a car that gets ~80mpg. And also the bigger sedan VW Passat TDi, with ~45 mpg IIRC.
Now, those cars need zero modifications to use BioDiesel fuel. BioDiesel is vegetal oil. Nothing else could be more ecology-friendly. And, if needed, you can mixe it with regular petro-diesel, for older engines.
Now, Diesel fuel used here in the US are waaaay too dirty (this is what kills Diesel cars in the US when you look at EPA statistics). There are some laws in place to reduce pollutants in US Diesel to European/Japan levels (1/100th of current sulphur contents).
Also, my car drives like a sports car: very nice handling (corners, break...), it has side aribags and all kind of safety features... and I have to really try to drive it under 85 mph, 'cause it wants to go fast.
Then, the Wagon version has about the same cargo room as a Jeep Grand Cherokee. Good for soccer moms...or for carrying those plasma TVs and huge monitors for our computers:)
I say that current technology (Diesel/BioDiesel) is good to reduce pollutants and fuel consumption. In Europe, Diesel represent more than 50% of total new car sells.
The US has lots of land. The tobacco industry s looking for a replacement... Maybe all can go to soy for BioDiesel (or similar crops). This way we decrease our dependency of foreing oil, decrease pollutants in the air, provide a good income to our farmers (the new "bio-oil industry") and Detroit has a new field to innovate and generate new jobs. And Diesel engines last 200,000 - 400,000 miles. Not bad.
See what The Register has to say about this study here, . And don't forget to check out the link, near the bottom to this IBM study (PDF) , a study researched by the Robert Francis Group.
Interesting second opinion, more in line of my experience.
Don't be free tech support for Microsoft. If they want to use Windows, fine. It's their choice, their problem. Not yours. Let them pay... how much is now? $100 a call?
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Right now, TDIs are:
:)
* fun to drive (german engineering)
* available from small Golf, sedan Jetta, wagon JettaWagen or trendy NewBug
* very safe (tons of safety features by default)
* lotsa torque (you drive torque, not horsepower)
* great mileage (EPA certifies 49 hwy, 42 city)
* you can run on BioDiesel (all or mixture of BioD + diesel)
* soon, Diesel in the US will be very clean (extra low sulphur diesel, like in Europe and Japan)
* diesel is proven technology
* 700 miles on one tank (some guys get 1000 miles)
* diesel fuel has waaay stabler price (no high huckups) than gas
* low maintenance (no sparkplugs, longer oil change intervals...)
* engines made by Audi engineers
* you can easily tinker the engine yourself
Check out http://www.tdiclub.com
I own a TDI and is just great.
Peace!
MUMPS used to be first a language, then an OS + a language, then a language + database....
MUMPS is very used in Healthcare industry. It's from before the internet.
Intersystems is a company that sells you the MUMPS set (database, language...) and runs on *nix, Windows and Linux (on Linux since 1998, IIRC). Intersystems sells it as a Post-relational Database System. They usualy advertise on Linux magazines, with an image of a 1/2 truck + 1/2 racing car. Or 1/2 cargo animal + 1/2 cheetah.
MUMPS has also been called M, OpenM... and now it's called CACHE.
It's very robust, fast (as it has been developed and debugged for decades). MUMPS is used when you absolutely cannot go down and you cannot loose data and you need huge amount of records and you need to access the data fast. Like, say, patient data for milions of patients, data from the last 15 years.
I've usualy seen MUMPS applications run in terminal emulations. 5 (?) years ago, some module was released to run those apps as Windows-clients (GUI app) or on Browser-clients (Web App).
See http://www.intersystems.com/
Note: I don't work for Intersystems nor I own intersystem's stock. I've worked "side-by-side" with MUMPS systems on a big organization for several years. Zero problems, amazing speed while dealing with massive amounts of data. I was impressed with it, as you can tell. Then I learned that it runs on Linux as well. Life was good. Now, I don't work there (wrong career move!) and I see the difference everyday.
Peace!
You also want to announce your project here:
http://www.linuxmednews.com/
Sure you will find good info and maybe a few developers.
Peace.
For some obscure reason, my true experiences in how Linux Desktop Distributions are nowadays ready for the desktop, get modded as Flamebait.
If you don't like them, tough. I'm no elite hacker or whatnot, and I don't need to be an elite hacker. I don't brag about how I compiled everything, I don't need to. I don't brag about how arcane can I be on the command line, I don't need to. I use my Linux and I am productive, which is on topic.
Oh, wait! I forgot that this was Slashdot.
Neeeevermiiiiind.
Next time I got something intelligent to say, I'll say it to myself.
Peace.
Q. Have you ever installed an ATAPI CD burner?
.
A. Yes. Many times. It always worked. I had to do *zero* kernel compilations or other messy stuff. The procedure: get a PC with CD-RW. Pop in Mandrake CD. Install Linux. All works out of the box.
Q. nVidia GeForce card?
A. For non-accelerated drivers, it worked out of the box. For 3D acceleration, I went to nvidia.com, downloaded a file, followed web-based instructions, and... bam! It's working. No magic, really.
Q. Scanner?
A. I don't have an scanner, so I don't know.
Q. Web cam?
A. Yes. I have a USB WebCam. Mandrake always detects it and configures it no problem without my intervention.
In short, one thing. Do you want to use Linux in the desktop? Then get yourself a Desktop Linux Distribution
Most probably you are using Debian or Gentoo or Slackware because it's kwel and 1337. Or maybe you are using a 5.2 Red Hat. Too bad. Because Linux is Linux is Linux. So, Linux + Desktop = Mandrake.
Peace
One example?
What about the whole friggin' Wall Street companies?
RedHat + Oracle are running many critical parts of Merryl-Lynch, First Boston-Credit Swisse...
Also, the German Parliament runs with Linux servers.
And Banco do Brasil as well.
And many, may others, including the US Army and the Hong Kong's HSBC
What else do you need?
Peace
A sample of this, in perfect "Management-Speak":
* Do I need to buy a SCO license?
SCO has not demonstrated that any infringement exists, nor has it established that it owns derivative works in UNIX. Nothing has been proven to establish that such a license is needed.
Which, translated into English says:
* Do I need to buy a SCO license?
Not at all
You go, RedHat!
Peace!
The Consumer has had, it's having and will have plenty of Linux (including Red Hat Linux, of course) with all the media attention. Yes, local and national media are printing, broadcasting... more and more stuff about Linux this days. (stop reading Slashdot! buy a local newspaper! turn on TV!)
;)
Even my in-laws call me, snail-mail me or email me (now it's pretty often, so it's getting annoying!) when they see something about Linux in the news/local newspapers etc etc. "Joe Localbusinessman switched to Leenux and saved millions" "Local geeks help networking local highschool with Lunix" "I make coffee with Leh-nucks and it tastes beter".
Yes, Linux is getting there. The average Joe Sixpack is reading about Linux in his local newspaper, local TV and seeing the local politicians talk about Loonix, as a measure to save money to the State. "Mmmm, if Lunix can save money to the State, what about my home? "
And Joe Sixpack hasn't ever never really bought any boxed Windows. Joe will get his Linux where he got his Windows: at the local computer shoppe (with the wizzy guy), buying a HP-Compaq preloaded with Linux, through the kids (bittorrent, kazaa... maybe even ftp!) or some guy from work will hand him a copuple of CDs with "Red Hat Linux 10".
This is going to happen in the near future. Mark my words. And, if it doesn't happen, you can get your money back.
Peace.
See it here for yourself. Already posted it.
Peace!
Mmmm, let's see:
..."
$ date
Wed Jul 2 23:39:11 EDT 2003
And in the Press release says:
"..., available beginning July 7,
So far, nothing wrong. IF they are not available on the 7th, then we can all scream and yell in dispair.
But not just yet.
Peace.
If you check the prices, you will see that they come with no tax:
HP-Compaq D220 with MS-WindowsXP: $429
HP-Compaq D220 with Mandrake 9.1: $349
For MDK 9.1: "Customized solutions, available beginning July 7, start at an estimated U.S. street price of $349"
See price for MS-W-XP: "starting at: $429.00*"
My question is: when will they be available in Europe? Peace!
Everything is available, yes. But you need the time to hunt, gather, compile, test, modify, compile, test, fix, compile, test, patch, compile, test and yet test again.
Are you in the government?
Because, of course, in your company you have the time, personnel and money to do all the testing required to find a good mix of the different versions of tools and programs, so the OS is rock solid, fast, uses advanced features (in a stable and controlled way) from unstable branches. And then, just like RedHat, give to the community thoussand of lines of code, tools, documentation...
In my company, the goal is *not* to build an efficient OS. The goal is make the company more productive. To get an stable & efficient OS, we use the expertise, personnel, resources and money from Red Hat. Why re-invent the wheel?
Do you really go through all the pain of maintaining your own Linux distribution? Then I say you are wasting resources. You could be doing something productive, say, implementing more services, building internal content management, improving the company workflow and thinking ahead.
Just "building our OS" is a way to throw resources (money and men-hour) away.
"Fixing" is not just "compiling a new binary". Maybe SCO does that. Linux companies test those binaries and the interaction of the new binaries with the rest of elements of their distribution.
Your company, with the neatest and geekiest OS is doomed, as you are burning money no-sense.
It looks like you are a little detached from (corporate) reality.
Someone should fire whoever is in charge of your IT department for gross missuse of resources, inappropiate understanding of the company strategy and by not understanding the current IT reality.
Wake up before is too late!
And, yeah, the old gcc-2.96 FUD. All those uninformed morons crying because they had less than perfect code. Previous gcc versions were more forgiving with errors. gcc-2.96 was more strict with errors, aside of actualy working the same while compiling code for different archs. IF you really check the facts, you will see that the ones who complained to gcc-2.96, later changed their mind as they understood what was all about. Ans that version was released as no current gcc was capable of delivering a stable, workable, multi-arch compiler. Ah, the beauty of Open Source! Of course, the "Red Hat is Microsoft" voices still are singing that old and FUDed song today. Now, gcc-3.x is even more strict than 2.96, lots of code shows as "broken" with gcc-3.x, but of course, now everybody reads the accompaining documentation and is forced to write better code AND this is not a Red Hat thinggy.
Ah, the unwashed masses! They are amazing.
Yes, it's so easy to be detached from reality.
Paying so much more for a few little kernel config options, their claim that it is more 'stable', the Red Hat layer of obfuscation over the text files in /etc, and the RPM jail in the long run can make administration as problematic as one of those sick little MSWindows Wizards
cow manure!
Obviously you've never seen/used/pushed-to-the-limit a RH AS 2.1 in a big machine (many CPs, several GBs RAM, external storage, cluster environments). And, my guess, is that you've never gotten into serious Windows server administration past the 'use the wizard'.
Repeat after me: my home machine is not an enterprise computing system.
Please, FUD somewhere else.
Peace --
The interview to SCO Information Minister is here
Errr...
You've never read the article, haven't you?
The article is by and about a web developer that lives and works in Ghana. Last time I checked, Ghana was part of the African continent.
And then, someone moded you up "Insightful" when you should have been moded "go read the article / check your geography".
Jeeeeez!
NDS/eDirectory is based on LDAP. It's not OpenLDAP.
GNU/Linux ships OpenLDAP, an open implementation of the LDAP protocol implementation. It's still very rough, though.
On the other hand, Novell ships eDirectory, which is a much improved, time-tested implementation of LDAP protocol.
Believe it or not, NDS/eDirectory is much better than OpenLDAP. Work with both, for at least a year, with scores of hundreds of users... and then, you tell me.
As for what can Novell bring to GNU/Linux... well, IBM has helped improve GNU/Linux. Sun has helped improve GNU/Linux. Oracle has helped improve GNU/Linux. HP has helped improve GNU/Linux. SGI has helped improve GNU/Linux...
We cannot know for sure, that's right. But a reasonable assumption, with the knowledge in hand of what has already happened, there's a good chance that GNU/Linux will benefit from Novell.
Why some people are affraid of companies investing in Linux?
You can't be serious here.
;)
:)
Comparing OpenLDAP to NDS/eDirectory is wrong. OpenLDAP is there, yes... but pales in comparison with eDirectory/NDS.
Novell was already delivering a very mature and advanced directory services (NDS) when Linux's OpenLDAP was very beta and Microsoft Directory was... well, vastly improvable
Linux *now* is pretty good. But Novell already was much better some years ago.
If Novell puts its knowledge into GNU/Linux so we all profit (Novell grows, Linux gets waaaaaaaaay better, Novell admin tools become GPL and we all improve them) then we all win, and win big.
P.S.: I'm a former Novell Admin, turned into Linux Admin as Microsoft Marketing Division pushed away Novell. I'd love to work with GNU/Linux/Novell systems
I'm excited!
If talking on dog-fighting style of air-combat:
h ars/shar s.htms /fa2/1 72.html
I guess you've never heard of VIFFing maneuvering, the "Vector In Forward Flight"-
Harrier is a V/STOL airplane, and it can use the vertical thrust jets in combat, so it can "jump" (climb or descend or turn) a bunch of hundreds of feet in a split second. Talk about air combat advantage!
Also, the Harrier is a small jet (difficult to sea and to aim to) and has no afterburner (difficult to get a lock-on with heat-seaker missiles).
Harrier pilots are trained in this. At least the Royal Navy pilots. Royal Navy use Sea Harriers as fighters.
The Harrier can be an "old" jet, but it does the job. (BTW, The newest Sea Harrier, the FA2 model, are from 1993, so they are 10 years old).
If talking about missile exchange, VIFFing comes handy to avoid incomming missiles. Also, Royal Navy Sea Harriers can use the AIM-120 AMRAAM, wich is about the best mid-range missile around.
Some links:
http://www.f4aviation.co.uk/Hangar/2003/s
http://www.airforce-technology.com/project
http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/
http://members.tripod.com/benno7/id32.htm
This one it's easy:
BOFH.
And it's a winning word for this three reasons
1. It's an acronym (HR loves acronyms)
2. It describes exactly your job function
3. Nobody except BOFHers know what BOFH means
Get a Mandrake Club membership and:
:)
- you get an email when the distro is ready
- click on the URL in the email to the ftp links for MDK-Club members
- Download your ISOs at ~3000 KBit/s (yes, 1 iso = 30 minutes)
- Access to campus.mandrakeclub.com
- get discounts for Mandrake products and others (Win4Lin, Opera...)
I say it pays
I'm not talking about "instant milleage". The 50 mpg is what I got after driving on highway for around 800 miles. Let me pull out the numbers from my spreadsheet:
:)
:)
Total miles: 1012.7 mi
Total Fuel: 19.475 g
milleage: 52 mpg
So I was wrong. It was 52 mpg
And, AFAIK, Toledo and Jetta have the same engine (Seat is part of the Audi-VW-Skoda-Seat thing). Seat engines use the same TDi technology than the VW. TDi was developed by Audi in the first place
And, anyway, I cannot get a Toledo in the US. And in the US, a VW is ~ the same price of a Honda Accord with the same load of features (manual transmission, security features, abs, disc brakes on both trains, 10 year extended warranty, road assistance...).
And the VW is a German car, if you know what I mean. An Accord is not half the fun. Your Toledo, being designed by German engineers, qualifies as German, so the fun you have with it is the same that I have.
Then, how clean is Diesel around the UK? Surrey is in the UK, IIRC my ancient history classes...
Note: I just wish that fuel be more expensive in the US, so SUV people would be forced to pay a price for the insanity of driving those monsters (12 mpg!!!!!!). Even at this cheap price, I'm saving $2000 on a 5-year period comparing with an Accord.
I drive a VW Jetta TDi car, that is, a Diesel car. I can get 50mpg on highway driving at normal speed.
:)
When speeding (I've done 115mph and there was some more left) and doing mostly city traffic I go down to only 44 mpg.
In Germany they have the VW Lupo, a car that gets ~80mpg. And also the bigger sedan VW Passat TDi, with ~45 mpg IIRC.
Now, those cars need zero modifications to use BioDiesel fuel. BioDiesel is vegetal oil. Nothing else could be more ecology-friendly. And, if needed, you can mixe it with regular petro-diesel, for older engines.
Now, Diesel fuel used here in the US are waaaay too dirty (this is what kills Diesel cars in the US when you look at EPA statistics). There are some laws in place to reduce pollutants in US Diesel to European/Japan levels (1/100th of current sulphur contents).
Also, my car drives like a sports car: very nice handling (corners, break...), it has side aribags and all kind of safety features... and I have to really try to drive it under 85 mph, 'cause it wants to go fast.
Then, the Wagon version has about the same cargo room as a Jeep Grand Cherokee. Good for soccer moms...or for carrying those plasma TVs and huge monitors for our computers
I say that current technology (Diesel/BioDiesel) is good to reduce pollutants and fuel consumption. In Europe, Diesel represent more than 50% of total new car sells.
The US has lots of land. The tobacco industry s looking for a replacement... Maybe all can go to soy for BioDiesel (or similar crops). This way we decrease our dependency of foreing oil, decrease pollutants in the air, provide a good income to our farmers (the new "bio-oil industry") and Detroit has a new field to innovate and generate new jobs. And Diesel engines last 200,000 - 400,000 miles. Not bad.
What do you all think?
Maybe you should get a second opinion.
See what The Register has to say about this study here, . And don't forget to check out the link, near the bottom to this IBM study (PDF) , a study researched by the Robert Francis Group.
Interesting second opinion, more in line of my experience.
See what could happen.
Don't be free tech support for Microsoft. If they want to use Windows, fine. It's their choice, their problem. Not yours. Let them pay... how much is now? $100 a call?
Users must learn the cost of their decissions.
you can buy roughly the same with 1000EUR in Europe as you can buy with $1000 in the US
Actualy, with 1000 EUR you can buy goods or services that can cost you around $1600 in the US.
Three words: cost of living.
Repeat after me "In Europe, with 22000 EUR/year you can live as with $45000/year in the US"
Been there, done that.