The original builder of the aircraft decided he didn't like the position of the fuel tank switch as designed and moved it to the more inaccessible position behind the pilot.
Right. The builder didn't like the idea of the fuel lines running around the cockpit. It was BTW, a Long EZ, which is a Burt (Voyager, SpaceShipOne) Rutan design. Rutan Aircraft got dragged into lawsuits so many times they stopped selling plans.
John Denver also did not have a valid Medical certificate. He was issued a special based on total abstinence from alcohol. He told his doctor he only dreank wine occasionally, which ain't total abstinence. He was dodging the feds who were demanding his revoked medical when he crashed. He was also at the time flying to Clint Eastwood's ranch to buzz him, which is also prohibited.
...you've never played with a flight simulator. They'll show you that 99% of flight time consists of just sitting there, waiting for the plane to get where you're going, not touching any controls at all.
99% of Visual Flight Rules flying requires you to have your eyes outside looking for other air traffic. It's "see and avoid." When you're going 150MPH, seeing and avoiding is enough of a challenge without having a laptop and router to diddle with.
The War Flyers so far have had the passenger(s) doing the geeking while, hopefully, the pilot concentrated on FLYING THE PLANE.
"Sorry, this browser does not support automated installation of trojans and other malicious applications, please upgrade to MSIE to further risk your computer security"
You think you're kidding? I got a run of spam emails that had in the HTML headers: "Your email client does not support HTML. Please upgrade to a better email client."...so the HTML webbugs embedded here will verify your email address for us.
The really scary thing is we have a virus scanner running on our mail server to filter this. However it is only updated once a day max, and the company (Sophos, not what we want but it's a government contract) isn't always on the stick with the updates. So people will do this within the first 48 hours of a new worm comming out. I hate to think what it would be like without filtering.
How about if your "virus scanner" just deleted ANY file with a name like "report.doc.pif?" There is NEVER a legit file that has two.xyz.xyz extensions. There is never a legit message from Postmaster@* that has an executable attachment.
Could it be that something that simple in the scanner would catch many of tomorrow's worms even when you don't pay a fortune for the signature update subscription? Once they have you in the "We'll detect what got you today in tomorrow's signature file" cycle you keep thinking the risk is bad enough to keep paying for updates? Can't be.
What could you do if you logged in and saw something amiss?
A burglar alarm that alerts the police or a security company would seem to offer better protection
Erm....You could call the police, which is what the security company would do. You could then call a trusted neighbor or relative to check out your place (also what the security company does.)
Next (I think) came the medium altitude chase plane, which was this really cool and modern looking craft with propellers in the back and a little wing on the nose.
That's a Beech StarShip which Burt Rutan also designed. The design was too unconventional for business types so it didn't sell well. Sadly Raytheon, current owner of Beech, is buying all of the few of them ever made and is destroying them to avoid any future legal liability.
ECCO is just what I needed! Ironically I bought a copy in the days before NetManage bought 'em. I still have the package and documentation. I didn't think I could trust it to work on the NT kernel.
I need a To-Do list system to manage myself handling muliple projects in different phases. I was about to search for one myself in hope I didn't have to try writing one (in Outlook VBA maybe, sigh.)
I like to have a way to have a standard set of sub tasks like:
- gather requirements
- 1st meeting scheduled for mm/dd/yy hh:mm at xyz
- 2nd....
- send proposed solution
- email project lead
- etc
each with a due date and reminder and the ability to mark the task complete and add notes.
and have each of those labeled up front with
Project Name - 1234
What I'd like is to have multiple view so I can answer the questions like: "What do I need to do next to move that (or all of my) project(s) along." "What's the status milestone in that project?"
I've been making Outlook tasks for some of those, I have no way to group them by project or to auto-create them as I need, much less have the multiple views.
I think that MS-Project won't cut it. I don't have manage any more than me.
(Note: to MS-bashers: Save your breath. I don't have a choice at work because it's the corporate standard. I'll have to sell any other solution I find becuase of that.)
They couldn't make a deal with DR because (IIRC) the CEO of DR went golfing instead of coming to the meeting.
Bill Gates walks in with this "QDOS" purchased from Seattle Computer Systems, a clone of CP/M, and sells it to them.
According to "The Revenge of the Nerds" it wasn't quite like that. Gary Kildall was in fact out of the office, but the IBM reps showed up unannounced as IBM was wont to do when they were working on a secret project. Kildall's wife/secretary/office manager was presennted with a very long non-disclosure aggreement that the IBM guys wanted a signature on before they would talk. She called their lawyers for an OK and kept them waiting through lunch.They got tired of waiting and went back to Bill Gates where they had just bought MS-BASIC.
He signed the agreement without hesitation and told them Microsoft would also supply the OS they needed. Then Microsoft bought the right for "Seattle DOS" for a one time payment of $50,000. IBM also paid once for as many copies of PC/DOS they wanted to ship, so in effect Microsoft did not get paid for each copy of PC-DOS.
The irony was that the origins of Seattle DOS were murky, i.e. it was DR's own CP/M 80 disassembled and cross compiled for the 8086. Gary Kildall said he knew why there were certain calls designed into the OS and he knew that Bill Gates had no idea. There was also the legend that you could read G-A-R-Y K-I-L-D-A-L-L if you masked certain byte sequence up to MS-DOS 2.0.
You do realize that Aluminium HAS the i in the King's English, right?
OED:
aluminium/æljmnim; æl-/ (BrE) (AmE aluminum/lumnm/) noun [U] (symb Al) a chemical element. Aluminium is a light, silver-grey metal used for making pans, etc: aluminium saucepans / window frames aluminium foil (= for example, for wrapping food)
John Cleese: "Don't forget you folks pinched our language and if we hadn't forgot to copyright it...."
Doesn't having the username and password in the clear mean that anybody who knows how to use a Hex editor can make their own patch? Just find those two strings and change them to something else, or better some sequence of bits that don't map to text.
Is there a checksum or CRC check in the firmware loader on the router that keeps you from being able to do that?
I've always wanted to get an LED sign for the back of my car.
There's prior art in one of he Dean Martin as Matt Helm movies. It wasn't LED, it was an animated movie effect scrolling metal framed sign that popped up out of the trunk. There were no LEDs in the 1960's.
The funniest message the writers could come up with was, "If you can read this, you're too close." as he was being chased by the bad guys.
This is The RIAA's dream. Everyone has to buy new... it's no longer possible to sell your music or give it to your little brother.
No, the RIAA's dream is mandatory cochlear implants with attached DRM'd combination locks and a coin slot.
No the RIAA's dream is the same as Microsoft's:
"Congratulations Mr. Smith, you're a father! It's a boy!"
"Here's the birth certificate, the hospital bill, the fee for his initial Windows license and the fee for the first year of his right-to-listen-to-music license. We can combine those into the second mortgage loan amount or do you want to use your credit card?"
You can be sure that the managers are already afraid you will leave something behind that could cause harm. If they think their fears are realized you might find yourself being walked to the door prematurely.
Once when my sysadmin/netadmin/everything job was finally eliminated when the boss called me in to tell me he complained that nothing was working because they shut everything down to change passwords and such. The worse I did was tell him that wasn't my problem anymore. I never tried to get in. I let him worry that I could.
Do the professional thing - which is, don't do anything.
Your next employer might just call this one to see what they say about you.
It's Loyola Marymount's Law School in Los Angeles participating, not Loyola University, which is Chicago. It looks like they both are taking pains to differentiate - "Loyola Marymount" vs. "Loyola University Chicago".
...most likely, according to this post and this one on his messageboards.
Yeah, I just read up on the G4/Comcast story on Leo's boards. They evidently think that Leo and Patrick are too old for the target audience.
I happened to have corresponded with one of TechTV's major 2004 advertisers who wanted the audience more like Patrick and Leo's age. I'm going to let him know that he should watch closely and consider shifting the ads to another channel.
I suspect I'll be deleting the TechTV shows from my TiVo's season pases and they WILL know overnight when enough of us do that.
Leo has had some job offers so we should look for him and other TechTV vets to show up elsewhere.
Are you sure you are still watching it? Leo Laporte ended his gig as regular host in late March (as reported on Slashdot) and he left TechTV altogether in early April.
Are YOU still watching TechTV?
If you read Leo's CURRENT blog and the boards at leoville.com you'll read that he came to terms on a new contract with the interim TechTV and has been back on Call for Help for the last few weeks.
He's currently on a a road trip with others from TechTV.
You'll see Comcast filed termination notices for the entire TechTV staff but they can decide who will move later.
I had pre-airbags 1980's Saab 9000 that that had explosive charges on the seat belt mounts in the door pillars intended to tighten the seat belts at the moment of impact.
Both door posts had warning stickers not to crush the car or bad things would happen.
I guess the junkyard crushing machine operators got occassional surprises!
I agree that the "grand conspiracy" theory that Diebold is actively trying to sweep Republicans into power is a bit much...
How do you reconcile this belief with http://www.google.com/search?....
I really wanted one of those Corvus drives about that time. You could hook your Apple ][ up to them, several simultaneously, in fact. They functioned like a rudimentary network.
AND as I recall as Local Area Networks began viable Corvus took that file sharing idea and became known as....guess who?
.......Novell!
Ethernet was WAY too expensive. At first we used 4mb/sec Arcnet. It had a maximum of 256 nodes and you had to set the address of each one by hand on DIP switches.
CC complains that satellite radio was supposed to offer only nationwide content, not have local content.
This complaint comes from the "local" radio consolidators that send the exact same canned computer-managed programming to their "local" stations across the country.
The days where a local band can get some airplay and has a chance to get a hit on the nationwide Billboard charts are long gone. (Chicago and Styx were local Chicago bands once.)
Satellite radio is V-e-r-y d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t *somehow*.
I apologize in advance for following up your joke with a serious post.
Considering that the "ZipZap" RC mincars use something like this, I would guess that it's a viable solution. I'm amazed that the clone I bought had the car, motor, steering, rechargeable battery, radio control transmitter and in-car receiver, etc, and with manufacturing and trans-Pacific shipping it got ito my hands for $6. Chinese labor is cheap!
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John Denver also did not have a valid Medical certificate. He was issued a special based on total abstinence from alcohol. He told his doctor he only dreank wine occasionally, which ain't total abstinence. He was dodging the feds who were demanding his revoked medical when he crashed. He was also at the time flying to Clint Eastwood's ranch to buzz him, which is also prohibited.
The War Flyers so far have had the passenger(s) doing the geeking while, hopefully, the pilot concentrated on FLYING THE PLANE.
Some noive, huh?...
..... Of ME to not use IE, I mean.
Could it be that something that simple in the scanner would catch many of tomorrow's worms even when you don't pay a fortune for the signature update subscription? Once they have you in the "We'll detect what got you today in tomorrow's signature file" cycle you keep thinking the risk is bad enough to keep paying for updates? Can't be.
You could then call a trusted neighbor or relative to check out your place (also what the security company does.)
*Thanks*, ambulance chasing lawyers.
ECCO is just what I needed! Ironically I bought a copy in the days before NetManage bought 'em. I still have the package and documentation. I didn't think I could trust it to work on the NT kernel.
I just installed this in Windows XP and it works!
Thanks for the URL!
I need a To-Do list system to manage myself handling muliple projects in different phases. I was about to search for one myself in hope I didn't have to try writing one (in Outlook VBA maybe, sigh.)
I like to have a way to have a standard set of sub tasks like:
- - gather requirements
- - 1st meeting scheduled for mm/dd/yy hh:mm at xyz
- - 2nd
....
- - send proposed solution
- - email project lead
- - etc
each with a due date and reminder and the ability to mark the task complete and add notes.and have each of those labeled up front with Project Name - 1234
What I'd like is to have multiple view so I can answer the questions like: "What do I need to do next to move that (or all of my) project(s) along." "What's the status milestone in that project?"
I've been making Outlook tasks for some of those, I have no way to group them by project or to auto-create them as I need, much less have the multiple views.
I think that MS-Project won't cut it. I don't have manage any more than me.
(Note: to MS-bashers: Save your breath. I don't have a choice at work because it's the corporate standard. I'll have to sell any other solution I find becuase of that.)
He signed the agreement without hesitation and told them Microsoft would also supply the OS they needed. Then Microsoft bought the right for "Seattle DOS" for a one time payment of $50,000. IBM also paid once for as many copies of PC/DOS they wanted to ship, so in effect Microsoft did not get paid for each copy of PC-DOS.
The irony was that the origins of Seattle DOS were murky, i.e. it was DR's own CP/M 80 disassembled and cross compiled for the 8086. Gary Kildall said he knew why there were certain calls designed into the OS and he knew that Bill Gates had no idea. There was also the legend that you could read G-A-R-Y K-I-L-D-A-L-L if you masked certain byte sequence up to MS-DOS 2.0.
You do realize that Aluminium HAS the i in the King's English, right?
John Cleese: "Don't forget you folks pinched our language and if we hadn't forgot to copyright it...."
Doesn't having the username and password in the clear mean that anybody who knows how to use a Hex editor can make their own patch? Just find those two strings and change them to something else, or better some sequence of bits that don't map to text.
Is there a checksum or CRC check in the firmware loader on the router that keeps you from being able to do that?
The funniest message the writers could come up with was, "If you can read this, you're too close." as he was being chased by the bad guys.
"Congratulations Mr. Smith, you're a father! It's a boy!"
"Here's the birth certificate, the hospital bill, the fee for his initial Windows license and the fee for the first year of his right-to-listen-to-music license. We can combine those into the second mortgage loan amount or do you want to use your credit card?"
You can be sure that the managers are already afraid you will leave something behind that could cause harm. If they think their fears are realized you might find yourself being walked to the door prematurely.
Once when my sysadmin/netadmin/everything job was finally eliminated when the boss called me in to tell me he complained that nothing was working because they shut everything down to change passwords and such. The worse I did was tell him that wasn't my problem anymore. I never tried to get in. I let him worry that I could.
Do the professional thing - which is, don't do anything.
Your next employer might just call this one to see what they say about you.
It's Loyola Marymount's Law School in Los Angeles participating, not Loyola University, which is Chicago. It looks like they both are taking pains to differentiate - "Loyola Marymount" vs. "Loyola University Chicago".
Other than that, carry on.
I happened to have corresponded with one of TechTV's major 2004 advertisers who wanted the audience more like Patrick and Leo's age. I'm going to let him know that he should watch closely and consider shifting the ads to another channel.
I suspect I'll be deleting the TechTV shows from my TiVo's season pases and they WILL know overnight when enough of us do that.
Leo has had some job offers so we should look for him and other TechTV vets to show up elsewhere.
If you read Leo's CURRENT blog and the boards at leoville.com you'll read that he came to terms on a new contract with the interim TechTV and has been back on Call for Help for the last few weeks.
He's currently on a a road trip with others from TechTV.
You'll see Comcast filed termination notices for the entire TechTV staff but they can decide who will move later.
I thought they bought an insurance policy to pay the $10 mil.
I would have bet that Burt Rutan would have won the prize by January 2005.
I guess they're cobering the bases so they don't have to go out of business in January.
The organizational imperative is to survive and stay viable.
I had pre-airbags 1980's Saab 9000 that that had explosive charges on the seat belt mounts in the door pillars intended to tighten the seat belts at the moment of impact.
Both door posts had warning stickers not to crush the car or bad things would happen.
I guess the junkyard crushing machine operators got occassional surprises!
As I've had in my .sig you can fly, too. The hardest part is starting. Go to your nearest airport and take the $49 demo flight.
Be A Pilot has all of the info. Other great resouces are AOPA and EAA.
Interesting.
I was thinking it was a token passing protocol like Token Ring which IS 4 mb/sec.
.......Novell!
Ethernet was WAY too expensive. At first we used 4mb/sec Arcnet. It had a maximum of 256 nodes and you had to set the address of each one by hand on DIP switches.
Exactly!
CC complains that satellite radio was supposed to offer only nationwide content, not have local content.
This complaint comes from the "local" radio consolidators that send the exact same canned computer-managed programming to their "local" stations across the country.
The days where a local band can get some airplay and has a chance to get a hit on the nationwide Billboard charts are long gone. (Chicago and Styx were local Chicago bands once.)
Satellite radio is V-e-r-y d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t *somehow*.
Considering that the "ZipZap" RC mincars use something like this, I would guess that it's a viable solution. I'm amazed that the clone I bought had the car, motor, steering, rechargeable battery, radio control transmitter and in-car receiver, etc, and with manufacturing and trans-Pacific shipping it got ito my hands for $6. Chinese labor is cheap!