Anyone suggesting to bury anything containing commercial grade chips had better read up on the propensity the doped silicon has to diffuse back into amorphous silicon. A lot of those chips end up as generic lumps of Si in that time frame.
We're living in the digital dark-ages, in a few decades there's likely to be an enormous _gap_ in records between the 1990s and 2000s as it was all stored on crap media and not transferred to longer lasting systems.
Especially this part: >> How about an explosive device that sets itself off when the right vehicle passes nearby? > Great, first I have to worry about the tolls on I-44 through Oklahoma, now I got to worry about exploding vehicles? > Maybe in the future we can all roll to work in giant hamster balls. Getting groceries home will be a bitch tho...
Removing the balls from the giant hamsters isn't exactly a piece of cake either...
Dark Star. There's a flight sequence where the ship is moving at some incredible velocity and it just plain *stops*. No slowing down, just stops. Everyone in the cinema lurched to one side.
As for the battles, in every movie I've ever seen they seem to be rehash of aircraft warfare, all 2D based where "lift" and "gravity" affect behaviour.
All these neatly arrayed ships sharing a common "up"
Can't remember ever seeing a decent 3D attack formation...
The department that I worked for had two SunOS servers (CS and IS depts). One day I was given the job of walking across campus, shutting down one, plugging something in and starting it up again - I can't even remember what I had to plugin.
On the IS machine I typed the shutdown command in wrong and it didn't work, so I tried to read the manpage. Manpages were NFS mounted from the other machine, but had now been dismounted, so I rsh'ed into the CS machine, RTFM'd and then typed in the correct command... Ooops, forgot to exit the rsh.
Boss was very kind, the comment was "everyone is allowed *one* bad mistake"
Second bad was spinning around on a swivel chair and having my knee hit the power switch on a NetWare server. Hurt like hell as well as switching off a running server!
In addition to the reviews of the project, Gordon Bell's own page on MyLifeBits is available at http://research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresen ce/M yLifeBits.aspx
"the courts"... Whose courts? Which country is the entire internet contained in? Whose juristiction are we all going to abide by?
Here in Australia, nude pictures of an 18 year old girl are classified as R-rated "porn", pictures of a 17year and 364 day old girl are illegal child pornography. In some countries the age limit is 21, in others, 16...
Would the courts of a US mid-west rural county classify things any different from those in a big city?
"Apache now ships as the default web server for NetWare 6, so Novell shops: Take note. A patch is available from Apache [apache.org], and Luigi describes a workaround in his article."
But Apache 1.3 is the default version that ships with NetWare 6, not Apache 2.0
Even a pile of "free" 1G, 2G, even 9G drives are going to take enclosures, wiring, power supplies and *space*
Sure its possible, but will it be reliable? Will you spend all your time finding which of your 15 drives is offline today and rebuilding home-made RAID sets?
We've just gone live with a HEAT installation where I work, so far5 all I can say is that it's _different_ to our old in-house system. Over 100M of Oracle client just to talk to the database seems excessive though!
The web interface is a java applet to a citrix-like thin client, *not* what I consider a web interface.
There's a java client for Linux, but I haven't tried that yet.
>would that be four thousand five hundred people, or >four to five hundred people?
Four thousand five hundred.
In most of Europe, a space is used to seperate groups of digits, the comma is used to seperate real from fractional part (reasoning being that a dot is likely to be less visible)
>it's a big difference; so please let us (me, >anyway) know.
There are currently *hundreds* of AUSTRALIAN animals that are endangered, unfortunately they don't have the high visibility that some of the African animals have.
For example, there are estimated to be around 100 northern hairy nosed wombats left alive, all in one national park. 10% of them died in the last 18 months.
As a grandiose gesture, Mr Packer's proposal doesn't seem to do much for his "home".
March 1998, Christian Taillefer reached 212.139km/hr, that's 132m/hr for you Americans.
It was on a Peugeot bike ridden down a ski slope. There used to be information off the Peugeot website, but the best I can find right now is a brief summary.
>Folks here have already mentioned audio CDs, >which used to be packaged in huge cardboard >boxes, but now are almost always sold in plain >jewel boxes. If shoplifting is an issue, the >store can lock the CDs in reusable plastic >extenders, which are annoying, but (presumably) >not wasteful.
CDs in Europe and Asia were _always_ sold only in jewel cases, in the US, the RECORD COMPANIES owned the cardboard manufacturers and printers who made covers for vinyl LPs, when CDs came out, pressure was brought to bear that "a bigger display case is needed or shops will lose out, bands won't get coverage, consumers won't be able to see what's on the CD...blah blah" and thus was born the great cardboard CD display cover.
Other interesting packaging trick. At least one brand I'm aware of (On Technology maybe) used to package it's software in equally large boxes, but they were _WEDGE_ shaped, so you can't put anything else on top of them. Consequently the box is always on the top of the pile on your desk and is the first thing you look at.
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Anyone suggesting to bury anything containing commercial grade chips had better read up on the propensity the doped silicon has to diffuse back into amorphous silicon. A lot of those chips end up as generic lumps of Si in that time frame.
We're living in the digital dark-ages, in a few decades there's likely to be an enormous _gap_ in records between the 1990s and 2000s as it was all stored on crap media and not transferred to longer lasting systems.
Do they sell them at Ikea with a cool unpronounceable name?
Especially this part:
>> How about an explosive device that sets itself off when the right vehicle passes nearby?
> Great, first I have to worry about the tolls on I-44 through Oklahoma, now I got to worry about exploding vehicles?
> Maybe in the future we can all roll to work in giant hamster balls. Getting groceries home will be a bitch tho...
Removing the balls from the giant hamsters isn't exactly a piece of cake either...
204kg, that's.... hmmm, about one american isn't it?
Dark Star. There's a flight sequence where the ship is moving at some incredible velocity and it just plain *stops*. No slowing down, just stops. Everyone in the cinema lurched to one side.
As for the battles, in every movie I've ever seen they seem to be rehash of aircraft warfare, all 2D based where "lift" and "gravity" affect behaviour.
All these neatly arrayed ships sharing a common "up"
Can't remember ever seeing a decent 3D attack formation...
The department that I worked for had two SunOS servers (CS and IS depts). One day I was given the job of walking across campus, shutting down one, plugging something in and starting it up again - I can't even remember what I had to plugin.
On the IS machine I typed the shutdown command in wrong and it didn't work, so I tried to read the manpage. Manpages were NFS mounted from the other machine, but had now been dismounted, so I rsh'ed into the CS machine, RTFM'd and then typed in the correct command... Ooops, forgot to exit the rsh.
Boss was very kind, the comment was "everyone is allowed *one* bad mistake"
Second bad was spinning around on a swivel chair and having my knee hit the power switch on a NetWare server. Hurt like hell as well as switching off a running server!
One month's holiday, four airports, about a dozen train stations...
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Verona train station: BSOD on a ticket info machine.
http://ajft.org/photos/2003_09_15/203-0
Heathrow airport: stuck at the BIOS and "Press F1 to continue" on a PC in customs and imigration - no photo, cameras forbidden!
Heathrow airport: Windows pop-up on *every* screen above the imigration counters, "Free something!!!"
Softdrink vending machine, london: "Error writing COM1: "
In addition to the reviews of the project, Gordon Bell's own page on MyLifeBits is available atn ce/M yLifeBits.aspx
http://research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPrese
The only EFR book I've ever read is Next of Kin. Hilarious. I've read it over and over... ..We shall bend murgatroyd's socks...
"the courts" ... Whose courts? Which country is the entire internet contained in? Whose juristiction are we all going to abide by?
Here in Australia, nude pictures of an 18 year old girl are classified as R-rated "porn", pictures of a 17year and 364 day old girl are illegal child pornography. In some countries the age limit is 21, in others, 16...
Would the courts of a US mid-west rural county classify things any different from those in a big city?
A month old repeat article is news?
The infoworld article is a month old.
Slashdot had it two weeks ago.
NetWare ships with Apache 1.3.x
Try to check your sources next time!
"Apache now ships as the default web server for NetWare 6, so Novell shops: Take note. A patch is available from Apache [apache.org], and Luigi describes a workaround in his article."
But Apache 1.3 is the default version that ships with NetWare 6, not Apache 2.0
A brand new 80G drive costs around $200AU
Even a pile of "free" 1G, 2G, even 9G drives are going to take enclosures, wiring, power supplies and *space*
Sure its possible, but will it be reliable? Will you spend all your time finding which of your 15 drives is offline today and rebuilding home-made RAID sets?
Who pays your power bills?
We've just gone live with a HEAT installation where I work, so far5 all I can say is that it's _different_ to our old in-house system. Over 100M of Oracle client just to talk to the database seems excessive though!
The web interface is a java applet to a citrix-like thin client, *not* what I consider a web interface.
There's a java client for Linux, but I haven't tried that yet.
>> Some 4 500 people
>would that be four thousand five hundred people, or
>four to five hundred people?
Four thousand five hundred.
In most of Europe, a space is used to seperate groups of digits, the comma is used to seperate real from fractional part (reasoning being that a dot is likely to be less visible)
>it's a big difference; so please let us (me,
>anyway) know.
Warning, culturally isolated Americans at work.
There are currently *hundreds* of AUSTRALIAN animals that are endangered, unfortunately they don't have the high visibility that some of the African animals have.
For example, there are estimated to be around 100 northern hairy nosed wombats left alive, all in one national park. 10% of them died in the last 18 months.
As a grandiose gesture, Mr Packer's proposal doesn't seem to do much for his "home".
March 1998, Christian Taillefer reached 212.139km/hr, that's 132m/hr for you Americans.
It was on a Peugeot bike ridden down a ski slope. There used to be information off the Peugeot website, but the best I can find right now is a brief summary.
>Folks here have already mentioned audio CDs,
>which used to be packaged in huge cardboard
>boxes, but now are almost always sold in plain
>jewel boxes. If shoplifting is an issue, the
>store can lock the CDs in reusable plastic
>extenders, which are annoying, but (presumably)
>not wasteful.
CDs in Europe and Asia were _always_ sold only in jewel cases, in the US, the RECORD COMPANIES owned the cardboard manufacturers and printers who made covers for vinyl LPs, when CDs came out, pressure was brought to bear that "a bigger display case is needed or shops will lose out, bands won't get coverage, consumers won't be able to see what's on the CD...blah blah" and thus was born the great cardboard CD display cover.
Other interesting packaging trick. At least one brand I'm aware of (On Technology maybe) used to package it's software in equally large boxes, but they were _WEDGE_ shaped, so you can't put anything else on top of them. Consequently the box is always on the top of the pile on your desk and is the first thing you look at.
'cos two generations from now it'll be a dog of a product :-)