It's ~hundreds of times above background but it's not at a level where it'll noticably cause health effects if she's in it for long.
Assuming she takes precautions like taking a shower and washing her clothes when she gets out/burning her clothes when she gets out, she'll be fine. (i.e. its probably only reducing her lifespan by the actual amount of time she's in the deadzone.)
IBM is doing a great job with their mindshare and Linux...some of the best commercials I've seen about it.
IBM commercials in general are steller, however. They do less selling of a product and more just putting what IBM does, or can do, out in the open, with some kind of clever anecdode. (Business Time Machine being one, etc.)
The best commercials are the ones that don't sell a *thing*, they're the ones that sell an *idea* and link that idea to a particular physical implimentation of such. IBM hit this directly on the head.
(slightly off topic to the article but on-topic to the parent)
I switched from using Apache 1.3.28 with PHP for my business (running on Windows) to using Apache 2.0.48.
With *no other configuration changes*, web pages were rendered and sent out to the clients *literally 3-5 times faster* than they previously had been. A site that took 11 seconds to load and display on Apache 1 took 4 seconds with Apache 2.
This was over a 100 mbit LAN connection; so the bottleneck was definately server-side, not client side.
(the entire thing is reduced to 1 second now...btw)
Canada is too far north to launch into any kind of a meaningful Earth orbit for communications satellites -- and that is what the vast majority of them are.
It's also the wrong inclination to launch anything to any other planets.....
That's why there's no pad in Canada, and why Russia uses highly elipcital orbits for the satellites it does have -- so there's coverage of the place where they were launched.
All stereo formats can also have their phase information reconstructed by Dolby ProLogic/ProLogic II as well. Granted, it's not as accurate as the original studio-encoded phase information, but it's "good enough" for most circumstances.
It shouldn't be a country governing the net -- it should have its own governing body, made up of its own aristocracy.
"Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. -- James Bryant Conant"
The Internet should be governed and run by technical people with demonstrated skill -- Programmers from both sides of the open-source divide, administrators and help-desk technicians, etc.
You'll have to remember that primarely, computers are used by one person and one person alone--same with the immediate workspace around them.
If they are your own bacteria you're used to, they're no more harmful than.....anything else, because you've got a natural immunity to them from *living with them.*
An interesting finding definately, but not a dangerous one at all.
A lot of programs maintain "recently accessed files" lists. What if the program that was giving him trouble was one which kept such a list, and had been used to view the images?
Internet Explorer history comes to mind. That's not "snooping" and it's standard practice to check and clear history and temporary internet files if there's an IE problem, like pages being displayed wrong.
Or, what if the problem was with Explorer -- My Documents is a fairly common place to store files, and it's also the default for Explorer to open to.
Calling it a "digitician" reduces it from a white-collar profession to a blue-collar one.
There's nothing wrong with blue-colar work, and indeed it's definately very skilled and specialized -- but it's "hands-on" skill. Computer work isn't the same.
I am a professional on-site service agent, or just, a computer professional. I am not a digitician, and I will never allow myself to be called one.
mount -t vfat/dev/sda1/mnt/usb error:/dev/sda1 has a corrupt superblock or invalid filesystem
mount -t vfat/dev/sda1/mnt error:/mnt is not a valid mount point
You're a technician, on a Linux network. The first time I've ever tried Linux was a month ago when I had these experiences.
You try setting up an Active Directory infrastructure with multiple sites and domains, and tell me it's not hard, the first time you've ever done it, without knowing anything about the subject.
Before you lecture me about being a "clueless MSCE guy" (sic) you'd do well to at least use the correct acronym. Microsoft Certified System Engineer. It blew out any credibility you had.
Actually, yes, I am saying that my USB Mass Storage Device is accessible when first installing Windows before any reboots...between my USB-aware BIOS that tries to boot from USB before anything else (comes in handy with my USB floppy drive) and apparently a compatible USB thumbdrive, the Windows XP installer offered me the choice of installing onto it.
Don't have the time to learn a new system like that;) Not that I'm not interested in it, its that I don't have the resources as the owner and lead technician of my consulting company to do such a thing.
I keep my "business" and my "enjoyment" time very seperate, and my computer involvement on personal time is mostly just writing emails, browsing slashdot, and some gaming.
Clueless MSCP? Definately not. I put forth a lot of effort snsuring that I'd be well prepared for real world applications -- there's nothing I hate more than a clueless paper certified loser trying to pass himself or herself off as a professional.
I might be in the wrong business, I give you that -- there's pleanty of other things I'm just as happy doing, but computers and IT is where I've been for years, no reason to change right now, especially if I'm performing as well as I believe a professional should.
Not complaining at all. I'm a big fan of Linux for servers (even though I can't set one up myself) but you're slightly incorrect - Windows *does* have a Live CD. The Windows Pre-execution Environment can reside on a CD and is an NT kernel. It's fairly limited however; the product "Bart's PE" creates a much more full-featured LiveCD distribution of Windows from an existing XP installation, using the files you have on your hard drive and several other free downloads from the Internet.
I used the LiveCD as an example of the "easiest" Linux to use, that's all.
I'll admit that I'm a bit biased and didn't pay $45, or even $75 or $275 for my licenses of Windows -- I got them through Microsoft for Partners professional discounts, which gets me them for approximately $30/license (Professional) but there's so much more stuff in there that it's closer to about $6/license.
I'm not a new computer user. I've been using PCs, and the Windows architecture, for 14 years now -- since right around 1990, and Windows 3.1. I still, at this point, find Linux too difficult for me.
Case study: Booting a *LIVE CD* distribution of Linux, it was impossible for me to make it detect my USB Mass Storage device. Then the autoconf script to place a/home folder on that device, and check for its presence at boot, never worked. I never did get that working -- and that's not even kernel hacking.
Then, fed up, I went on AIM (gAIM) to ask a friend who'd had similar experience. When signing back on with a Windows client later in the day -- my buddy lists were completely rearranged, groups were created with copies of people, and a handful of names were missing, for no apparent reason whatsoever. gAIM messed it up.
I'd love to use Linux, but I'm afraid to honestly, becuase of the fact that I don't know a thing about how to use it, and it doesn't seem to want to be used itself. I'll just stick to administrating Windows networks. Anything I've wanted to do so far, I've been able to do under Windows. That includes running Unix-only scientific tools - thank god for Cygwin.
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Yes.
It's ~hundreds of times above background but it's not at a level where it'll noticably cause health effects if she's in it for long.
Assuming she takes precautions like taking a shower and washing her clothes when she gets out/burning her clothes when she gets out, she'll be fine. (i.e. its probably only reducing her lifespan by the actual amount of time she's in the deadzone.)
Her meter was microretnogen/hour.
(spelling is wrong)
REM is retnogen enhanced modifier or something to that effect -- it's the dose * an absorbtion factor.
not quite the same thing.
IBM is doing a great job with their mindshare and Linux...some of the best commercials I've seen about it.
IBM commercials in general are steller, however. They do less selling of a product and more just putting what IBM does, or can do, out in the open, with some kind of clever anecdode. (Business Time Machine being one, etc.)
The best commercials are the ones that don't sell a *thing*, they're the ones that sell an *idea* and link that idea to a particular physical implimentation of such. IBM hit this directly on the head.
(slightly off topic to the article but on-topic to the parent)
I switched from using Apache 1.3.28 with PHP for my business (running on Windows) to using Apache 2.0.48.
With *no other configuration changes*, web pages were rendered and sent out to the clients *literally 3-5 times faster* than they previously had been. A site that took 11 seconds to load and display on Apache 1 took 4 seconds with Apache 2.
This was over a 100 mbit LAN connection; so the bottleneck was definately server-side, not client side.
(the entire thing is reduced to 1 second now...btw)
Well, I'm in the US, so it's valid for me.
Good point, however.
Technically, it is a crime now, with the new laws (CAN-SPAM Act) that were passed...
Just an addendum to your post, some of Jupiter's moons are approaching the size of our own planet, and definately are larger than the moon.
Canada is too far north to launch into any kind of a meaningful Earth orbit for communications satellites -- and that is what the vast majority of them are.
It's also the wrong inclination to launch anything to any other planets.....
That's why there's no pad in Canada, and why Russia uses highly elipcital orbits for the satellites it does have -- so there's coverage of the place where they were launched.
All stereo formats can also have their phase information reconstructed by Dolby ProLogic/ProLogic II as well. Granted, it's not as accurate as the original studio-encoded phase information, but it's "good enough" for most circumstances.
skipping commercials in PVR'd tv: correct
using a spider to index webpages: correct
downloading a Britney Spears MP3: incorrect
but 2 out of 3 isn't bad I suppose......
It shouldn't be a country governing the net -- it should have its own governing body, made up of its own aristocracy.
"Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. -- James Bryant Conant"
The Internet should be governed and run by technical people with demonstrated skill -- Programmers from both sides of the open-source divide, administrators and help-desk technicians, etc.
You'll have to remember that primarely, computers are used by one person and one person alone--same with the immediate workspace around them.
If they are your own bacteria you're used to, they're no more harmful than.....anything else, because you've got a natural immunity to them from *living with them.*
An interesting finding definately, but not a dangerous one at all.
Nobody in their right mind would *produce anything new of any value at all* if they didn't have some financial insentive for doing it.
That insentive is patent royalties for 9-15 years.
Face it, that's capitalism. The bottom line drives everything --- but the system approaches maximum efficiency, so it's hardly "bad"
How do you know it was snooped for?
A lot of programs maintain "recently accessed files" lists. What if the program that was giving him trouble was one which kept such a list, and had been used to view the images?
Internet Explorer history comes to mind. That's not "snooping" and it's standard practice to check and clear history and temporary internet files if there's an IE problem, like pages being displayed wrong.
Or, what if the problem was with Explorer -- My Documents is a fairly common place to store files, and it's also the default for Explorer to open to.
Calling it a "digitician" reduces it from a white-collar profession to a blue-collar one.
There's nothing wrong with blue-colar work, and indeed it's definately very skilled and specialized -- but it's "hands-on" skill. Computer work isn't the same.
I am a professional on-site service agent, or just, a computer professional. I am not a digitician, and I will never allow myself to be called one.
Right. And 3.8kW @ 110v is 34A of power. Tell me what circuit is going to provide that?
It's only 17.2A of 220v, but nothing uses that in the US.
And it's 8.8A of 430v (3-Phase) but no houses in the US have that. Only industrial/commercial installations.
Thanks ;)
errors are paraphrased
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb /dev/sda1 has a corrupt superblock or invalid filesystem
/dev/sda1 /mnt /mnt is not a valid mount point
mount -t vfat
error:
mount -t vfat
error:
You're a technician, on a Linux network. The first time I've ever tried Linux was a month ago when I had these experiences.
You try setting up an Active Directory infrastructure with multiple sites and domains, and tell me it's not hard, the first time you've ever done it, without knowing anything about the subject.
Before you lecture me about being a "clueless MSCE guy" (sic) you'd do well to at least use the correct acronym. Microsoft Certified System Engineer. It blew out any credibility you had.
Actually, yes, I am saying that my USB Mass Storage Device is accessible when first installing Windows before any reboots...between my USB-aware BIOS that tries to boot from USB before anything else (comes in handy with my USB floppy drive) and apparently a compatible USB thumbdrive, the Windows XP installer offered me the choice of installing onto it.
Don't have the time to learn a new system like that ;) Not that I'm not interested in it, its that I don't have the resources as the owner and lead technician of my consulting company to do such a thing.
I keep my "business" and my "enjoyment" time very seperate, and my computer involvement on personal time is mostly just writing emails, browsing slashdot, and some gaming.
Clueless MSCP? Definately not. I put forth a lot of effort snsuring that I'd be well prepared for real world applications -- there's nothing I hate more than a clueless paper certified loser trying to pass himself or herself off as a professional.
I might be in the wrong business, I give you that -- there's pleanty of other things I'm just as happy doing, but computers and IT is where I've been for years, no reason to change right now, especially if I'm performing as well as I believe a professional should.
It might be something like that...I'll give it another look.
Not complaining at all. I'm a big fan of Linux for servers (even though I can't set one up myself) but you're slightly incorrect - Windows *does* have a Live CD. The Windows Pre-execution Environment can reside on a CD and is an NT kernel. It's fairly limited however; the product "Bart's PE" creates a much more full-featured LiveCD distribution of Windows from an existing XP installation, using the files you have on your hard drive and several other free downloads from the Internet.
I used the LiveCD as an example of the "easiest" Linux to use, that's all.
Yes, to me, it is worth it.
/home folder on that device, and check for its presence at boot, never worked. I never did get that working -- and that's not even kernel hacking.
I'll admit that I'm a bit biased and didn't pay $45, or even $75 or $275 for my licenses of Windows -- I got them through Microsoft for Partners professional discounts, which gets me them for approximately $30/license (Professional) but there's so much more stuff in there that it's closer to about $6/license.
I'm not a new computer user. I've been using PCs, and the Windows architecture, for 14 years now -- since right around 1990, and Windows 3.1. I still, at this point, find Linux too difficult for me.
Case study:
Booting a *LIVE CD* distribution of Linux, it was impossible for me to make it detect my USB Mass Storage device. Then the autoconf script to place a
Then, fed up, I went on AIM (gAIM) to ask a friend who'd had similar experience. When signing back on with a Windows client later in the day -- my buddy lists were completely rearranged, groups were created with copies of people, and a handful of names were missing, for no apparent reason whatsoever. gAIM messed it up.
I'd love to use Linux, but I'm afraid to honestly, becuase of the fact that I don't know a thing about how to use it, and it doesn't seem to want to be used itself. I'll just stick to administrating Windows networks. Anything I've wanted to do so far, I've been able to do under Windows. That includes running Unix-only scientific tools - thank god for Cygwin.
Microsoft just sent me 10 copies of MS VPC 2004.
I'm going to run Windows 98 inside of them, for the sole purpose of playing FF7 PC again.