In fact, even the mostly non-ferrous American coins are still slightly affected by electromagnetic fields. American Science & Surplus in Milwaukee sells a device that can be used to demonstrate the effects of eddy current damping on various coins. Don't try it with higher-ferrous coins (Canadian, etc.).
What this is essentially, is several sets of hard-drive magnets mounted in a verticle row, so that the coins can fall through the open spaces between them. Hard drive magnets are actually an arrangement of four magnets. Each of the two panels has two magents, mounted closely side-by-side with opposite polarization. This configuration produces an extremely strong and tight field in the opening (where the coils of the read-write head go). But fields that are that strong have stronger eddies. Strong enough to have an affect on even practically non-ferrous American coins.
Looks like you forgot to mention one thing, and the slashed up URL made it slightly more difficult to discover.
There are about a hundred different entries contained in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Param eters. The REG_DWORD in question is the one labeled "TcpTimedWaitDelay". Accepted values are between 30 and 300 (seconds).
My current recommended free antivirus is Avast! Home Edition [avast.com] [avast.com], which is very low maintenance for the home user, and requires registration for the free license. It also protect a number of common Instant Messenger clients, as well as several common P2P clients. It is better than AVG in my opinion, and detects many trojans as well as spyware.
Does anyone have any recommended Anti-Virus software for Windows that doesn't depend on Internet Explorer? I've had clients got their IE hosed by some mal-ware or other that effectively killed their copy of Norton AV. Norton & McAfee & Avast & AnitVir &... all need some version of IE either for the interface or for downloading virus definition updates. Hose IE and it can take your AV software with it.
I'd like to have good AV software to recommend to them, but too many of the available choices seem to have drunk the MS koolaid of using IE as a GUI/engine component.
No, they aren't heating the lake. They are extracting a small portion of cold water from the lake, and sinking the heat into that water as it flows on its way to the drinking water purification system. The absorbed heat will be dissapated by the time that water returns to the lake through the sewage treatment system.
I'd agree with you that it would be a problem if that isolated part of the lake were being used as a heat sink, but that's just not the case. What IS happening there is that there is a net loss of colder water in that region, at that particular strata of the lake. But the fluid dynamics of water (and the persistence of temperature strata) will tend to disperse the effect over a fairly wide area. The comparison to 7 additional seconds of sunlight over a year is probably about as accurate as you can get without a lot more math.
I'm sure the reversal of the ChicagoRiver more than a century ago has affected Lake Michigan more than this will Lake Ontario.
Fishy is an awfully kind way to describe the smell of the blossom.
You are probably thinking of the one that bloomed in Germany in May, 2003. Slash also reported on one back in 2001 in Wisconsin.
I wouldn't call three specimens in four years blooming "all the time". There have been only about 15 recorded blooms in the United States. That's not blooms in a year, that is blooms at all. This is not a garden variety daylily we're talking about.
With a streaming setup, you need a much more expensive computer device to receive anything. FM radios are a dime a dozen. You are unlikely to listen to more than one stream at once.
What you want is somethinglikethis . Plug it into the sound-out of a cabled media computer (or, heck, a Wireless Music/Media Player, if you feel the need to comply with the latest buzzwords). Put the computer wherever you have the space (closet, basement, attic) and keep your stereo clutter-free. Tune the FM transmitter to a free space low on the dial (89.3 or so), and listen to your streams on any stereo in/around/outside the house. So long as you aren't stepping on any other nearby frequencies, and the reception drops off significantly enough before you get more than a few houses away, you shouldn't have much worry about complaints.
Or you can drag your Wireless Music/Media Player out into the backyard the next time you want to host a barbecue. Of course, "wireless" doesn't usually apply to power cables and wall warts.
free/open source software or 'community' development
I think the problem here is with the term "community". There are plenty of proprietary software systems that have healthy communities built up around them. The developers work closely with the clients to grow the system into something that really fits the niche. The clients suggest new features and perhaps get issues resolved more quickly than a trouble-ticket system can provide. The developers get instant feedback and ongoing beta testing. All that can happen without ANY of the code seeing the light of day, and it can still easily be called "community development". Heck, the developer might actually even share some source with a client in the community if they think it will help.
But that does NOT make it F/OSS! The F/OSS movement does not have a lock on terms like "community" or "non-profit". In fact, these terms had meaning long before RMS started getting fed up with a proprietary printer driver.
It doesn't sound to me like this CRM system came with a F/OSS license. Your complaint seems to be that the CRM system is being sold by a non-profit corporation that is just a front for a for-profit corp. That is a completely different matter that has nothing to do with F/OSS. I think that non-profits fronting for for-profits is definitely something to complain about. But unfortunately it seems to be (currently) perfectly legal. Debtcounselingservices seem to be the worst exploiters of this legal situation.
Credit cards used to expire in 5 years. Now all of mine expire in 2 years. Whatever. 5 years, 2 years, that's still longer than my last Casio watch lasted. I don't think I'm particulary harsh on watches, especially because there are others I've had for more than 10 years. I just not sure I want my credit card number blinking 0000 0000 0000 0000 000 after 6 months.
I realize that with 400+ comments that this has probably been said already, and perhaps even more cogently. But I thought I'd get my opinion down regardless. This is from Brown's response at ADTI
[...]
True Open Source vs. Hybrid Source [...] While hybrid software appears to be the same as open source, it isn't. Hybrid source code can never be true intellectual property. The actual purpose of hybrid source is to nullify its value as private property, which makes the hybrid source model significantly different from true open source. Noone can ever truly accrue any value from owning hybrid source software, because everybody (and anybody) has the rights to every line of improvement in it. Worse, many argue that if hybrid source is used the wrong way, it can make other source code hybrid source as well.
Brown seems to consider that the value of software comes not from the utility it provides for the posessor, but from the posessor's ability to deprive others of that utility. He appears to believe that only scarce things have value.
[...]
I've got a lot of code laying around that could be reused to put this together pretty quickly.
Me too. Except I'm not sure where I put all of it. I was thinking of getting together some kind of inventory system to help me keep track of it... Oh, wait...
To their credit, Monsanto DID voluntarily declare they wouldn't use the terminator genes. For an undeclared period. But they've have been granted the patents on them, so it's an ace they can still play.
Patents expire, you know.
You seem to be presuming that they have only been granted one patent on the technology, back in the 90's. They have continued R&D on it and are continuing to acquire patents on novel associated methods. A search at the US Patent and Trademark Office on "Monsanto AND seed AND suicide" will yield quite a few pending patent applications related to suicide-gene technology.
Surprised isn't the word. Try pissed. For close to a decade, now.
I would have thought that genetically modified crops would be unable to reproduce by some manipulation. I'm quite surprised to hear from the articles and research linked that this is not the case.
You're thinking about Monsanto's PR-failing terminator seeds. The doo-doo started hitting the fan for them in 1998. They were the ones that would produce sterile seed unless treated with a Monsanto-owned chemical. The problem was that it was possible for the new gene to cross via pollen into neighbors crops. It's one thing to have your organic corn become valueless (and get a hefty legal judgement against you for "stealing") because the wind blows your neighbor's crop pollen your way. It is a completely different thing to discover what happened only next spring, when the only thing coming up in the back 40 is weeds because your saved organic seed *somehow* became sterile.
To their credit, Monsanto DID voluntarily declare they wouldn't use the terminator genes. For an undeclared period. But they've have been granted the patents on them, so it's an ace they can still play.
It's not just commercial transactions are out. Encryption on amature shortwave is a no-no, too.
There goes SSH, https:, VPNs, etc..
And 9600bps? <Shudder>
Reminds me trying to get through MAE-East, about 10 years ago. At times, it was SO congested that it was faster and less of a headache to use a 14.4 modem to dial into St. Louis (had to go far enough West to keep from being routed back through it) from DC and just skip that particular choke point. But I digress.
No, leave the amature shortwave stuff alone for this situation.
this might damage the fish is some irreparable way
Damage them? They'll simply die.
No no no. Video cards don't reproduce themselves. He was talking about evolutionary damage. Who knows what will happen to fish that are born and raised in THX(TM) 1138. Once you start getting fish with extra eyes and prehensile tails, you're gonna have a hard time breeding that stuff back out.
Make the string into loops that go up the conduit and turn around and go right back down. Give a few feet of slack on each end. Pull new cables with an assistant at the other end. The cable comes through like a dumb waiter on a pulley, and you don't have to figure out how to replace the string because you didn't just pull it all OUT to get the cable fed through.
We used to do that as kids. Not nearly to that scale, though. We'd get a handful of fluorescent tubes and play light saber underneath the power lines. Of course, we'd eventually end up hitting them against one another too hard and they'd break. Protective eyewear was a must.
The tubes were easy to come by. There was an industrial park nearby, and there'd always be some in a dumpster behind one of the many office buildings. The fact that they'd flicker a lot made them look even cooler.
Back in the day, Donna Kossy was always the first person to turn to for this sort of thing. She's still around, if you are looking for this sort of stuff in deadtreeformat.
If you look around, you can find a couple of goodsites around that carry the torch.
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In fact, even the mostly non-ferrous American coins are still slightly affected by electromagnetic fields. American Science & Surplus in Milwaukee sells a device that can be used to demonstrate the effects of eddy current damping on various coins. Don't try it with higher-ferrous coins (Canadian, etc.).
What this is essentially, is several sets of hard-drive magnets mounted in a verticle row, so that the coins can fall through the open spaces between them. Hard drive magnets are actually an arrangement of four magnets. Each of the two panels has two magents, mounted closely side-by-side with opposite polarization. This configuration produces an extremely strong and tight field in the opening (where the coils of the read-write head go). But fields that are that strong have stronger eddies. Strong enough to have an affect on even practically non-ferrous American coins.
Looks like you forgot to mention one thing, and the slashed up URL made it slightly more difficult to discover.
There are about a hundred different entries contained in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Param eters. The REG_DWORD in question is the one labeled "TcpTimedWaitDelay". Accepted values are between 30 and 300 (seconds).
For a minute there, I thought you were talking about a different Evil Yellow Face.
Does anyone have any recommended Anti-Virus software for Windows that doesn't depend on Internet Explorer? I've had clients got their IE hosed by some mal-ware or other that effectively killed their copy of Norton AV. Norton & McAfee & Avast & AnitVir &
I'd like to have good AV software to recommend to them, but too many of the available choices seem to have drunk the MS koolaid of using IE as a GUI/engine component.
No, they aren't heating the lake. They are extracting a small portion of cold water from the lake, and sinking the heat into that water as it flows on its way to the drinking water purification system. The absorbed heat will be dissapated by the time that water returns to the lake through the sewage treatment system.
I'd agree with you that it would be a problem if that isolated part of the lake were being used as a heat sink, but that's just not the case. What IS happening there is that there is a net loss of colder water in that region, at that particular strata of the lake. But the fluid dynamics of water (and the persistence of temperature strata) will tend to disperse the effect over a fairly wide area. The comparison to 7 additional seconds of sunlight over a year is probably about as accurate as you can get without a lot more math.
I'm sure the reversal of the Chicago River more than a century ago has affected Lake Michigan more than this will Lake Ontario.
If you open your eyes and your mind, you'll be surprised what you might find.
Or even the sun ...
But it certainly is shiny! Time will tell if it is truly useful.
I wonder what kind of ultrasonic scream the squirrel mentioned here (Squirrel Cop) made.
You are probably thinking of the one that bloomed in Germany in May, 2003. Slash also reported on one back in 2001 in Wisconsin.
I wouldn't call three specimens in four years blooming "all the time". There have been only about 15 recorded blooms in the United States. That's not blooms in a year, that is blooms at all. This is not a garden variety daylily we're talking about.
With a streaming setup, you need a much more expensive computer device to receive anything. FM radios are a dime a dozen. You are unlikely to listen to more than one stream at once.
What you want is something like this . Plug it into the sound-out of a cabled media computer (or, heck, a Wireless Music/Media Player, if you feel the need to comply with the latest buzzwords). Put the computer wherever you have the space (closet, basement, attic) and keep your stereo clutter-free. Tune the FM transmitter to a free space low on the dial (89.3 or so), and listen to your streams on any stereo in/around/outside the house. So long as you aren't stepping on any other nearby frequencies, and the reception drops off significantly enough before you get more than a few houses away, you shouldn't have much worry about complaints.
Or you can drag your Wireless Music/Media Player out into the backyard the next time you want to host a barbecue. Of course, "wireless" doesn't usually apply to power cables and wall warts.
I think the problem here is with the term "community". There are plenty of proprietary software systems that have healthy communities built up around them. The developers work closely with the clients to grow the system into something that really fits the niche. The clients suggest new features and perhaps get issues resolved more quickly than a trouble-ticket system can provide. The developers get instant feedback and ongoing beta testing. All that can happen without ANY of the code seeing the light of day, and it can still easily be called "community development". Heck, the developer might actually even share some source with a client in the community if they think it will help.
But that does NOT make it F/OSS! The F/OSS movement does not have a lock on terms like "community" or "non-profit". In fact, these terms had meaning long before RMS started getting fed up with a proprietary printer driver.
It doesn't sound to me like this CRM system came with a F/OSS license. Your complaint seems to be that the CRM system is being sold by a non-profit corporation that is just a front for a for-profit corp. That is a completely different matter that has nothing to do with F/OSS. I think that non-profits fronting for for-profits is definitely something to complain about. But unfortunately it seems to be (currently) perfectly legal. Debt counseling services seem to be the worst exploiters of this legal situation.
Credit cards used to expire in 5 years. Now all of mine expire in 2 years. Whatever. 5 years, 2 years, that's still longer than my last Casio watch lasted. I don't think I'm particulary harsh on watches, especially because there are others I've had for more than 10 years. I just not sure I want my credit card number blinking 0000 0000 0000 0000 000 after 6 months.
If you are Ohio's FirstEnergy, you run your hole-in-the-head Davis Besse nuke with Windows NT.
I realize that with 400+ comments that this has probably been said already, and perhaps even more cogently. But I thought I'd get my opinion down regardless. This is from Brown's response at ADTI Brown seems to consider that the value of software comes not from the utility it provides for the posessor, but from the posessor's ability to deprive others of that utility. He appears to believe that only scarce things have value.
Me too. Except I'm not sure where I put all of it. I was thinking of getting together some kind of inventory system to help me keep track of it... Oh, wait...
Surprised isn't the word. Try pissed. For close to a decade, now. You're thinking about Monsanto's PR-failing terminator seeds. The doo-doo started hitting the fan for them in 1998. They were the ones that would produce sterile seed unless treated with a Monsanto-owned chemical. The problem was that it was possible for the new gene to cross via pollen into neighbors crops. It's one thing to have your organic corn become valueless (and get a hefty legal judgement against you for "stealing") because the wind blows your neighbor's crop pollen your way. It is a completely different thing to discover what happened only next spring, when the only thing coming up in the back 40 is weeds because your saved organic seed *somehow* became sterile.
To their credit, Monsanto DID voluntarily declare they wouldn't use the terminator genes. For an undeclared period. But they've have been granted the patents on them, so it's an ace they can still play.
It's not just commercial transactions are out. Encryption on amature shortwave is a no-no, too. There goes SSH, https:, VPNs, etc..
And 9600bps? <Shudder>
Reminds me trying to get through MAE-East, about 10 years ago. At times, it was SO congested that it was faster and less of a headache to use a 14.4 modem to dial into St. Louis (had to go far enough West to keep from being routed back through it) from DC and just skip that particular choke point. But I digress.
No, leave the amature shortwave stuff alone for this situation.
Scotty be damned! If anyone can change the laws of physics through sheer will-to-power, its Michael Powell.
No no no. Video cards don't reproduce themselves. He was talking about evolutionary damage. Who knows what will happen to fish that are born and raised in THX(TM) 1138. Once you start getting fish with extra eyes and prehensile tails, you're gonna have a hard time breeding that stuff back out.
I feel ripped off. I had the American release (on Arista, I think), and it didn't have that.
Make the string into loops that go up the conduit and turn around and go right back down. Give a few feet of slack on each end. Pull new cables with an assistant at the other end. The cable comes through like a dumb waiter on a pulley, and you don't have to figure out how to replace the string because you didn't just pull it all OUT to get the cable fed through.
We used to do that as kids. Not nearly to that scale, though. We'd get a handful of fluorescent tubes and play light saber underneath the power lines. Of course, we'd eventually end up hitting them against one another too hard and they'd break. Protective eyewear was a must.
The tubes were easy to come by. There was an industrial park nearby, and there'd always be some in a dumpster behind one of the many office buildings. The fact that they'd flicker a lot made them look even cooler.
Back in the day, Donna Kossy was always the first person to turn to for this sort of thing. She's still around, if you are looking for this sort of stuff in dead tree format.
If you look around, you can find a couple of good sites around that carry the torch.
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