Southwest Airline Ticket kiosks use win2k on them and i ran into one that had it's introductory text lines were superimposed upon each other! The watchdog kept it from running so i didnt get to see if the rest of the app was running ok. The attendent that finished reloading the adjacent kiosk with ticket blanks went to it, tried to reboot it and promptly got herself into a bind with the BIOS setup showing on the display. She nearly panicked when i stepped in and guided her thru getting out of the BIOS and into the boot.
SwAir has more than a few of such kiosks at Houston and are great to check in and get your boarding passes without getting into lines. The ticklish part's getting to a working kiosk!.:p
That would be great in case you have some stuff that you are holding over some joker to keep you alive.. When you croak, the emails simply go out and notify your comrades that they can either release to the press or trash the incriminating data.
Go get a preset hosts file and put it in where your old hosts file is at on your windows and that will take care of nearly 75% of all your problems..
http://www.2fords.net/rchapin/hosts.zip
Do a search for hosts and simply overwrite your old ole with the new one.. It's small, but it does take care of the top spy/mal/adware..
The engines were based upon the hybrid engines that the SR-71 Blackbird used. The SR-71 used a combination low-bypass turbojet engine with a continious cycle ramjet. The jet cycle would operate until the aircraft would reach higher mach numbers (1.4-1.6 i think) then it would shift it's cycle to where the inlet would be generating about 15% of the thrust and the ejector assembly would be creating up to about 45%. These numbers are rough, but as the aircraft kept acclerating to higher mach numbers the inlet and ejector would create more and more thrust. A very efficient system when it was devised, but murder on the pocketbook when it came to building it.
I'm sorry guys, but after the disaster that
[H]ardOCP had with THG regarding the rollout of the Amthlon64 processor during quakecon 2003, I wont be viewing that site for some time.. Maybe never!
One local nut built one complete with a gun carrage and took it to the local rifle range.
The resulting blast brought the local, county and state troopers to see who was blowing crap up.
Turned out when they found out, hung around for two more salvos from the monster!
I saw the photos of the cannon going off and it had a impressive muzzle flash.
Using Pyrodex will do wonders for your complexion and add that special aroma to your cologne.
Been there, done that.. It's called SKYWARN.. It's a group of trained men and women that monitors the skies for any sign of tornadic activity... With the advent and implimentation of the WS88D (doppler) system and it's network, the usefulness of SKYWARN has lessened to a degree, until now they are shrinking to only where they are still valuable in rural areas where doppler is not as effective.
A couple of years back, there were some white pages on the user of PAR type systems, but NOAA had shot its wad on the current NEXRAD system. Clunky, fulla bugs than a winXP system, but at least it gets the job done..
To implement PAR would mean a cost-savings on the sum of several million on maintenance. The mechanical plant would be reduced to the gantry used to do exterior work on the panels whenever necessary. And on the upshot, there would be graceful degredation, when a element would fail, the other elements would simply take over the load until enough panels or emitters quit where the system would request a repair ticket to be opened. Then it's the simple matter of turning down the juice on the system, get up on a gantry and go replace the modular panels with simple hand tools.. Easy, huh? Let's see how a buracuracy like NOAA handles that one!
Heee heee, it appears that they disconnected their phone number due to the high volume of calls. Did someone do a Slashdot on their PBX system? hehehehe!;D
Folks keep forgetting that the administration at the time had what was coined as "Go Fever". They were in a rush to beat the Soviets to the moon, so they cut corners. They had such a head of steam up that they didnt know what sort of dangers that they had entailed when they put Apollo 1 on the stack.
Same thing with Challenger folks. Thats one fever that no one wants.
Ever.
Consider a Apollo/Saturn assembly that has all the modern electronics, the weight savings on the instrument collar alone would be ENORMOUS! Now take the first stage engines and improve them with the current block shuttle engine refinements. The fuel pumps alone would push the efficiency rating through the roof, enabling a far larger payload, less strain on the entire assembly at launch and at high throttle settings.
Let's face it guys, The Apollo/Saturn V design was overengineered by a substantial margin. Take the last block mod Saturn V blue design and throw everything we've learned since the Skylab/Saturn V flight and we will come out with a superb workhorse designed to loft fully loaded ISS modules into space, with room to spare for supplies or last-minute items that the ISS crew requested.
That was the only major event that occurred with the Rocketdyne S2B engines, BUT it was not the only major incident that occurred on Apollo/Saturn trips.. They had problems with the vehicle doing a "pogo" dance. That is when the vehicle starts to surge up and down on it's thrust, creating a oscillation along the vehicle's vertical axis. It took nearly all of the Apollo/Saturn launches to kick the pogo problem, but the last moon shot they had that puppy whupped.
Then there was that lightning that KOed half of the electrical systems on Apollo 12, nearly causing them to abort the launch. If it were not for John Aaron being on top of matters, they would have touched off the escape tower and came back down, making it the shortest Saturn V ride ever.
More links to come guys, but IF and when we do put a Saturn V back on the pad, lets get some HDTV and IMAX cameras on the pad so we can get the launch on tape for posterity's sake!
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All of the above is correct! The atmospheric pressures were higher during firing as well as the high nitro/low O2 mixture. Then once the bird made orbit and was on it's way, the pressure was gradually reduced and the mixture shifted to a purer O2 atmosphere to take the load off of the scrubbers.
Yer onto something there.. Palladium does get refined in different ways and is a tempermental metal to work with. What would happen if the metal was refined where the structure is made more pourus, allowing for more hydrogen accumulation, then using pressure and a small electrical charge (ionized gases or fluids perhaps) in a attempt to kickstart the reaction by cramming more and more H2 into the matrix?
There has to be another metal that has a higher porosity that can be used in place of palladium that can yield better results.
You are correct and i retract my last post. I keep forgetting about the limits that flash-based CMOS memory has...
*sighs* Well, back to the old softstate RAID arrays until someone pulls a rabbit out of his/her hat and gets us some solidstate memory that has the equivalent storage capacity of the ST:TNG isolinear storage sticks, and has the dependability of the old seagate 1.2 gigg drives too.
There's your cheap solid-state hard disk storage thats readily available, and portable too!
Certain card readers under Win2k and macs are read as actual hard drives, so there you go.. 4GB of archival storage that can be tucked into a safe spot and transported easily.
I know that Macs can create RAID arrays of multiple flash cards, now what if someone codes a program for windows or *nix to do the same?
Oh i can agree with that statement. Ring voltage can curl your hair quite easily if you get grounded when the phone rings.. I ran into that on more than one occassion, either reworking phone circuits or tinkering on a modem while it's still plugged into the phone jack..
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Southwest Airline Ticket kiosks use win2k on them and i ran into one that had it's introductory text lines were superimposed upon each other! The watchdog kept it from running so i didnt get to see if the rest of the app was running ok. The attendent that finished reloading the adjacent kiosk with ticket blanks went to it, tried to reboot it and promptly got herself into a bind with the BIOS setup showing on the display. She nearly panicked when i stepped in and guided her thru getting out of the BIOS and into the boot.
:p
SwAir has more than a few of such kiosks at Houston and are great to check in and get your boarding passes without getting into lines. The ticklish part's getting to a working kiosk!.
That would be great in case you have some stuff that you are holding over some joker to keep you alive..
When you croak, the emails simply go out and notify your comrades that they can either release to the press or trash the incriminating data.
http://www.hardocp/com
Go get a preset hosts file and put it in where your old hosts file is at on your windows and that will take care of nearly 75% of all your problems.. http://www.2fords.net/rchapin/hosts.zip Do a search for hosts and simply overwrite your old ole with the new one.. It's small, but it does take care of the top spy/mal/adware..
The engines were based upon the hybrid engines that the SR-71 Blackbird used. The SR-71 used a combination low-bypass turbojet engine with a continious cycle ramjet. The jet cycle would operate until the aircraft would reach higher mach numbers (1.4-1.6 i think) then it would shift it's cycle to where the inlet would be generating about 15% of the thrust and the ejector assembly would be creating up to about 45%. These numbers are rough, but as the aircraft kept acclerating to higher mach numbers the inlet and ejector would create more and more thrust. A very efficient system when it was devised, but murder on the pocketbook when it came to building it.
Er, what modem are the Netport's that you guys are having problems with? Reply back to me direct via my email...
I'm sorry guys, but after the disaster that [H]ardOCP had with THG regarding the rollout of the Amthlon64 processor during quakecon 2003, I wont be viewing that site for some time.. Maybe never!
Let's hear you tell that to a Corvette owner... Their body panels are Fiberglass!
One local nut built one complete with a gun carrage and took it to the local rifle range. The resulting blast brought the local, county and state troopers to see who was blowing crap up. Turned out when they found out, hung around for two more salvos from the monster! I saw the photos of the cannon going off and it had a impressive muzzle flash. Using Pyrodex will do wonders for your complexion and add that special aroma to your cologne.
http://www.oarhq.noaa.gov/congress/FY2003/OnePager s/Phased%20Array%20Radar.pdf
Shamless plug for the 2004 FY proposal.. I wish them luck!
Been there, done that.. It's called SKYWARN.. It's a group of trained men and women that monitors the skies for any sign of tornadic activity... With the advent and implimentation of the WS88D (doppler) system and it's network, the usefulness of SKYWARN has lessened to a degree, until now they are shrinking to only where they are still valuable in rural areas where doppler is not as effective.
A couple of years back, there were some white pages on the user of PAR type systems, but NOAA had shot its wad on the current NEXRAD system. Clunky, fulla bugs than a winXP system, but at least it gets the job done..
To implement PAR would mean a cost-savings on the sum of several million on maintenance. The mechanical plant would be reduced to the gantry used to do exterior work on the panels whenever necessary. And on the upshot, there would be graceful degredation, when a element would fail, the other elements would simply take over the load until enough panels or emitters quit where the system would request a repair ticket to be opened. Then it's the simple matter of turning down the juice on the system, get up on a gantry and go replace the modular panels with simple hand tools..
Easy, huh? Let's see how a buracuracy like NOAA handles that one!
Heee heee, it appears that they disconnected their phone number due to the high volume of calls. ;D
Did someone do a Slashdot on their PBX system? hehehehe!
Folks keep forgetting that the administration at the time had what was coined as "Go Fever". They were in a rush to beat the Soviets to the moon, so they cut corners. They had such a head of steam up that they didnt know what sort of dangers that they had entailed when they put Apollo 1 on the stack.
Same thing with Challenger folks. Thats one fever that no one wants.
Ever.
Consider a Apollo/Saturn assembly that has all the modern electronics, the weight savings on the instrument collar alone would be ENORMOUS! Now take the first stage engines and improve them with the current block shuttle engine refinements. The fuel pumps alone would push the efficiency rating through the roof, enabling a far larger payload, less strain on the entire assembly at launch and at high throttle settings.
Let's face it guys, The Apollo/Saturn V design was overengineered by a substantial margin. Take the last block mod Saturn V blue design and throw everything we've learned since the Skylab/Saturn V flight and we will come out with a superb workhorse designed to loft fully loaded ISS modules into space, with room to spare for supplies or last-minute items that the ISS crew requested.
We do... The Saturn V! The monster could haul a ISS module into space as gently as if it were carried by the shuttle, inexpensive too!
That was the only major event that occurred with the Rocketdyne S2B engines, BUT it was not the only major incident that occurred on Apollo/Saturn trips..
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They had problems with the vehicle doing a "pogo" dance. That is when the vehicle starts to surge up and down on it's thrust, creating a oscillation along the vehicle's vertical axis. It took nearly all of the Apollo/Saturn launches to kick the pogo problem, but the last moon shot they had that puppy whupped.
Then there was that lightning that KOed half of the electrical systems on Apollo 12, nearly causing them to abort the launch. If it were not for John Aaron being on top of matters, they would have touched off the escape tower and came back down, making it the shortest Saturn V ride ever.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-35
More links to come guys, but IF and when we do put a Saturn V back on the pad, lets get some HDTV and IMAX cameras on the pad so we can get the launch on tape for posterity's sake!
All of the above is correct! The atmospheric pressures were higher during firing as well as the high nitro/low O2 mixture. Then once the bird made orbit and was on it's way, the pressure was gradually reduced and the mixture shifted to a purer O2 atmosphere to take the load off of the scrubbers.
Nuts... H, not H2! My bad....
Yer onto something there.. Palladium does get refined in different ways and is a tempermental metal to work with.
What would happen if the metal was refined where the structure is made more pourus, allowing for more hydrogen accumulation, then using pressure and a small electrical charge (ionized gases or fluids perhaps) in a attempt to kickstart the reaction by cramming more and more H2 into the matrix?
There has to be another metal that has a higher porosity that can be used in place of palladium that can yield better results.
My 2 cents worth..
to use sledgehammer tactics when it comes to something they don't like..
Stupid, stupid, stupid..
I know what Chuck Yeager would say: "Gas that beast up and let's go punch a hole in the sky with it!"
You are correct and i retract my last post. I keep forgetting about the limits that flash-based CMOS memory has...
*sighs* Well, back to the old softstate RAID arrays until someone pulls a rabbit out of his/her hat and gets us some solidstate memory that has the equivalent storage capacity of the ST:TNG isolinear storage sticks, and has the dependability of the old seagate 1.2 gigg drives too.
There's your cheap solid-state hard disk storage thats readily available, and portable too!
Certain card readers under Win2k and macs are read as actual hard drives, so there you go.. 4GB of archival storage that can be tucked into a safe spot and transported easily.
I know that Macs can create RAID arrays of multiple flash cards, now what if someone codes a program for windows or *nix to do the same?
Two Words, one product: BAG PHONE!
Oh i can agree with that statement. Ring voltage can curl your hair quite easily if you get grounded when the phone rings.. I ran into that on more than one occassion, either reworking phone circuits or tinkering on a modem while it's still plugged into the phone jack..
*ZAP!* Oh hey, your phone's *ZAP!* ringing..