- Something to read (for when the luggage tracking and transport system fails) - Emergency underwear (for when they will lose your luggage) - Anal lube (for when you complain about the delay and lost luggage)
If in addition you travel with british airways, I would say a dose of Valium or Prozac and a strong whisky would do the trick.
You don't have Internet ? There is a MegaUbuntu DVD available somewhere.With it you can install almost everything from the disk. Problem is, easiest way to get it is to download it...
Gave her an oldie 1.4Ghz AMD and a 17" crt I was to bin (god bless LCDs) and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
It took me some time to get her configured (lol) and I put big nice icons with functions name in a Sidebar (Email instead of Evolution, etc...) and auto update (yeah, well, I know, I know)
She now upgraded to 8.04 LTS. Took me about 5 minutes on a VNC.
Step 1: Playoff/deathmatch style showdown to find the the best of the AIs/human Step 2: The winning AI plays the 'best' human player Step 3: Whip (s)he/it to a top class "Ender's Game" facility and make (s)he/it fight for us (afghanistan, Yemen, Secret Darkside Moonbase against the fé'zer - this week only don't ask about next one....) Step 4: Profit.
front page. Think...giant heatsink...(first overlord joke gets the boot 8p)
As for concrete, let me introduce you to this wonderful answer : it depends. Mostly on the concrete.
"Ramazan Demirboa
Civil Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Atatürk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey
Abstract
In this study, the effect of silica fume (SF), class C fly ash (FA), blast furnace slag (BFS), SF+FA, SF+BFS, and FA+BFS on the thermal conductivity (TC) and compressive strength of concrete were investigated. Density decreased with the replacement of mineral admixtures at all levels of replacements. The maximum TC of 1.233 W/mK was observed with the samples containing plain cement. It decreased with the increase of SF, FA, BFS, SF+FA, SF+BFS, and FA+BFS. The maximum reduction was, 23%, observed at 30% FA. Compressive strength decreased with 3-day curing period for all mineral admixtures and at all levels of replacements. However, with increasing of curing period reductions decreased and for 7.5% SF, 15% SF, 15% BFS, 7.5% SF+7.5% FA, 7.5% SF+7.5% BFS replacement levels compressive strength increased at 28 days, 7- and 28-days, 120 days, 28- and 120 days, 28 days curing periods, respectively. Maximum compressive strength was observed at 15% BFS replacement at curing period of 120 days."
You may even have more time to hear them than you think...
I'm not sure but I think it is In Saudi Arabia that there was a ruling by a coranic council AGAINST Koran verses used as ringtone.
You, they are sacred... and picking up the phone would mean interrupting them...so if you use a coranic verse as your ringtone you have to wait until the call is picked up by voicemail...
Disclaimer : yes, IAMDRS (I Am A Disaster Recovery Specialist...yeah, like I can brag about it whenever I want 8p)
We offer something along the same line for enterprise class backup. Except we install a vendor agent on the server and send the "diff" to an EMC array in a Tier3 datacenter.This array is replicated real time to another location situated 20 miles from there using a dedicated high speed private network (aka Chunk O' Fiber on two different routes), and the first copy is backuped in full everyday.The system also allows for versionning, dedupe, encryption, restoration of a single file in the backup, bare metal restore, etc ad nauseatum.
What you put together with a remote, direct to disk copy and off site tape is the best you can get nowadays without too much compromises and a good service level if you are serious about ups's and temperature control etc.
I should know. It's what I have at home between my place (FTTP 50Mb up) , vpn to the "backup and everything else" server in the basement of my parents house - Cable, officialy up to 100 Mbps down - but Nagios forgot to tell me about it the day it happened... - yes, it runs linux 8p
Only difference with you is I offsite the tapes to my workplace 8)
In one of our offices, failure to lock your screen means you'll send an email proposing your sexual favours to a bunch of same sex colleagues for a modicum of money.
Second offender in the same day makes the same offer, but to both sexes, and for a lower amount.
This taught basic security to all newcomers.
It is lucky that : - Most of us got caught, and pass on the joke - we all have a sense of humor - we are not in the US 8p
"And because the sales of the latest Shakira are so low I'm late on the payments on my yacht ! Lets strong arm them into payingany way we can, even if we have to beat them back all the way to the 20th century, and even beyond if needs be !"
if we can get both (or all three), you could find yourself with a nice Star Trek tablet in you suit pocket.
Thinner (Oleds), can be ruggerized, with a nice modern multi-touch interface a la Windows7 / apple iphone, wifi + cell phone + bluetooth, webcam with autofocus and tracking, throw in a 30 feet IR emitter and a RF and you have the ultimate companion.
Ah yes. Lasers. I forgot them ! holographic messaging ! drools...
all of this is possible today. might be expensive, but : 10 inches OLEDS exist since late 2007, the rest can almost all be put on a single chip + a 3D chip. a full holographic system would need a lot of power. Add in special glasses as they do now for 3d TV, and your tablet becomes 3d. Add in "augmented reality" in the glasses (they do small lasers in silicon now...for projection and tablet interaction/ movement tracking) and you have the future as far as you can hope this century.
(happy owner of a Sony ereader prs-505, avid reader, geek...)
Then please add a strong (8\10 meters) IR interface.
It can then become my universal remote AND my (potato) couch web browser. Otherwise, I already found some solutions to browse from the couch (aka iphone)
Orange (the historical isp/phone, ex France Telecom) and Illiad (isp named Free) are battling it over in Paris to provide Ftth.
My building owners coucil ("Co-propriete") agreed to go with Free (the ISP has to "propose" to the owner of the building, in this case the "council" representing the owners of each flat), and the building was vertically "fibered" 4-5 months after they issued their writ of acceptance.
I had to explain to an assembly of elderlies why I preferred Free's technological choices : a mix of MPLS and L2TPv3.
It is actually a FTTH EFM Point-to-Point (1000BASE-LX-10). - 802.3ah to the last mile and then a giant MPLS fibre Network covering the city.
No more Dslams, what you have is an actual FC swich port.
I now await the technician visit for the horizontal link to my flat and I will have access to 100Mb/50Mb for 29.99Eu/month.
Of those I intend to provide 10Mb upload to as an anonymous Tor Node I could piggyback on for torrents and 5 Mb to an anime/manga irc bot so I can get pre-release anime and manga fansub in my favored groups (if I read it 5 mn before you, I'm still happy...)
The remanining 35Mb up are "for my personnal use".
I'm wondering about the possibility of a private VPN, to share "picture/videos of the kids/anything we damn want" among trusted friends...like that private encrypted/torrent swarm we heard about on/.
My point being, how much would it cost me WITHOUT "Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Win/4.0 Mac, Corel Painter Essentials 4.0, and Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 GE"
Because, you see, I don't need them...And I must somehow pay for them along with the tablet, because except for FOSS, there is no free beer...
Reason ? France doesn't want to import "hormon treated" veal meet. (ever had a piece of veal that lost 50% of it's size when cooked ? => doped veal grow much much faster...)
Importing french wine ? 50 different laws (one per state), named importers that all ask for exclusivity and try to dictate their prices because, well, they are the only ones you can pass through to import wine...
Opening a good french restaurant in the US with imported french delicacies ? bliss...
Disclaimer : I don't work for Sony but I have a PRS-505. Been reading almost exclusively on it for almost two years now.
1/ You can buy ebooks from Sony. Or get the from Gutemberg. Or Baen. Or anywhere else you want.
2/ No GSM in it. But it means they cannot revoke any licenced/copyrighted material remotely. And hell, who really needs a gsm in their book ? Remotely downloading a newspaper ? I'm too cheap to pay both for the news AND the data download. I got a computer doing that for me already...
3/ Converting books/manga/newspaper tools available for Windows/linux/Mac. I even got a linux script to mass tranform mangas in a pdf to read on the PRS-505 (using Gimp scripts to sharpen/resize...)
4/ nice, well placed buttons.
5/ Nice and pretty body
6/ Customised firmwares exist...
7 / takes SDHC and Sony memory sticks
8/ recharge using USB or a wall wart (the dedicated one or a psp charger works)I read everyday 1-2 hours on it and recharge once a week.
Only problem I have is I cannot "shuffle" the book, flipping pages to find a chapter I want to re-read as easily I Ican with a paper book.
Compare both, make your choice. I hade both the kindle 1 and the Sony to choose from, and the PRS-505 won, not even a real match. Seen the kindle 2...well : let's just say I'm still very happy with the Sony.
I took it to extended trips in on 4 continents, and nothing beats having 400 books on a card and 800 mangas when the place you go to has neither tv nor radio...the music player isn't very good, but you have the option.
having put the decoding tasks to the linux server, the xbox would actually be able to do the task now. It would not ne used to decode anymore, it just has to grab the decoded video flux and put it on the screen. streaming it only.
=> same for the wall-wart. It doesn't have to have a decoding dsp, it just has to be able to grab the stream and put it on video-out.
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Bring :
- Something to read (for when the luggage tracking and transport system fails)
- Emergency underwear (for when they will lose your luggage)
- Anal lube (for when you complain about the delay and lost luggage)
If in addition you travel with british airways, I would say a dose of Valium or Prozac and a strong whisky would do the trick.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
(remember Debian NetInstall ? this is it for Ubuntu)
You don't have Internet ? There is a MegaUbuntu DVD available somewhere.With it you can install almost everything from the disk.
Problem is, easiest way to get it is to download it...
You got an Inversed Polish Notation keyboard ? oh, you naughty geek ! 8p
Same with a 50ish aunt of mine.
Gave her an oldie 1.4Ghz AMD and a 17" crt I was to bin (god bless LCDs) and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
It took me some time to get her configured (lol) and I put big nice icons with functions name in a Sidebar (Email instead of Evolution, etc...) and auto update (yeah, well, I know, I know)
She now upgraded to 8.04 LTS. Took me about 5 minutes on a VNC.
Only support I had to do in 3 years...
Step 1: Playoff/deathmatch style showdown to find the the best of the AIs/human
Step 2: The winning AI plays the 'best' human player
Step 3: Whip (s)he/it to a top class "Ender's Game" facility and make (s)he/it fight for us (afghanistan, Yemen, Secret Darkside Moonbase against the fé'zer - this week only don't ask about next one....)
Step 4: Profit.
Here, I corrected that for you...8)
Just interested in keeping the extra income 8)
Just to get it out of the way, yes, IAADRS (I am a Disaster Recovery Specialist - the "speaks bit and byte" and "cosfi" datacenter visiting type...)
Concrete ? Well, yes. Under the raised floor. What did you want ? Marble ?
No cooling from the raised floor ? why not ?
Overhead network cables and a "newish" cooling solution like here :
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/
front page. Think...giant heatsink...(first overlord joke gets the boot 8p)
As for concrete, let me introduce you to this wonderful answer : it depends. Mostly on the concrete.
"Ramazan Demirboa
Civil Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Atatürk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey
Abstract
In this study, the effect of silica fume (SF), class C fly ash (FA), blast furnace slag (BFS), SF+FA, SF+BFS, and FA+BFS on the thermal conductivity (TC) and compressive strength of concrete were investigated. Density decreased with the replacement of mineral admixtures at all levels of replacements. The maximum TC of 1.233 W/mK was observed with the samples containing plain cement. It decreased with the increase of SF, FA, BFS, SF+FA, SF+BFS, and FA+BFS. The maximum reduction was, 23%, observed at 30% FA. Compressive strength decreased with 3-day curing period for all mineral admixtures and at all levels of replacements. However, with increasing of curing period reductions decreased and for 7.5% SF, 15% SF, 15% BFS, 7.5% SF+7.5% FA, 7.5% SF+7.5% BFS replacement levels compressive strength increased at 28 days, 7- and 28-days, 120 days, 28- and 120 days, 28 days curing periods, respectively. Maximum compressive strength was observed at 15% BFS replacement at curing period of 120 days."
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V23-4KPFKFY-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1085368183&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b8e7b8ce7b5e23b07db5805bf9ad9740
You may even have more time to hear them than you think...
I'm not sure but I think it is In Saudi Arabia that there was a ruling by a coranic council AGAINST Koran verses used as ringtone.
You, they are sacred... and picking up the phone would mean interrupting them...so if you use a coranic verse as your ringtone you have to wait until the call is picked up by voicemail...
Disclaimer : yes, IAMDRS (I Am A Disaster Recovery Specialist...yeah, like I can brag about it whenever I want 8p)
We offer something along the same line for enterprise class backup. Except we install a vendor agent on the server and send the "diff" to an EMC array in a Tier3 datacenter.This array is replicated real time to another location situated 20 miles from there using a dedicated high speed private network (aka Chunk O' Fiber on two different routes), and the first copy is backuped in full everyday.The system also allows for versionning, dedupe, encryption, restoration of a single file in the backup, bare metal restore, etc ad nauseatum.
What you put together with a remote, direct to disk copy and off site tape is the best you can get nowadays without too much compromises and a good service level if you are serious about ups's and temperature control etc.
I should know. It's what I have at home between my place (FTTP 50Mb up) , vpn to the "backup and everything else" server in the basement of my parents house - Cable, officialy up to 100 Mbps down - but Nagios forgot to tell me about it the day it happened... - yes, it runs linux 8p
Only difference with you is I offsite the tapes to my workplace 8)
In one of our offices, failure to lock your screen means you'll send an email proposing your sexual favours to a bunch of same sex colleagues for a modicum of money.
Second offender in the same day makes the same offer, but to both sexes, and for a lower amount.
This taught basic security to all newcomers.
It is lucky that :
- Most of us got caught, and pass on the joke
- we all have a sense of humor
- we are not in the US 8p
Lag !
(and retroaction, but that is another subject)
"And because the sales of the latest Shakira are so low I'm late on the payments on my yacht ! Lets strong arm them into payingany way we can, even if we have to beat them back all the way to the 20th century, and even beyond if needs be !"
Dear sir,
Please find hereby enclosed my resume...
if we can get both (or all three), you could find yourself with a nice Star Trek tablet in you suit pocket.
Thinner (Oleds), can be ruggerized, with a nice modern multi-touch interface a la Windows7 / apple iphone, wifi + cell phone + bluetooth, webcam with autofocus and tracking, throw in a 30 feet IR emitter and a RF and you have the ultimate companion.
Ah yes. Lasers. I forgot them !
holographic messaging !
drools...
all of this is possible today. might be expensive, but :
10 inches OLEDS exist since late 2007,
the rest can almost all be put on a single chip + a 3D chip.
a full holographic system would need a lot of power. Add in special glasses as they do now for 3d TV, and your tablet becomes 3d.
Add in "augmented reality" in the glasses (they do small lasers in silicon now...for projection and tablet interaction/ movement tracking) and you have the future as far as you can hope this century.
(happy owner of a Sony ereader prs-505, avid reader, geek...)
So you never bought a DVD with the mandatory "film previews" ?
Make her rewrite the Linux Documentation !
Then please add a strong (8\10 meters) IR interface.
It can then become my universal remote AND my (potato) couch web browser.
Otherwise, I already found some solutions to browse from the couch (aka iphone)
In the IT company I work for, we mesure it but the number of irate salespeersons that survived inside a SL8500 with tape cleaning engaged.
And me waiting all this time for the '+10inches - Garanteed - Swedish Pump + 15 Original Cyalis' package to be delivered...
Orange (the historical isp/phone, ex France Telecom) and Illiad (isp named Free) are battling it over in Paris to provide Ftth.
My building owners coucil ("Co-propriete") agreed to go with Free (the ISP has to "propose" to the owner of the building, in this case the "council" representing the owners of each flat), and the building was vertically "fibered" 4-5 months after they issued their writ of acceptance.
I had to explain to an assembly of elderlies why I preferred Free's technological choices : a mix of MPLS and L2TPv3.
It is actually a FTTH EFM Point-to-Point (1000BASE-LX-10). - 802.3ah to the last mile and then a giant MPLS fibre Network covering the city.
No more Dslams, what you have is an actual FC swich port.
I now await the technician visit for the horizontal link to my flat and I will have access to 100Mb/50Mb for 29.99Eu/month.
Of those I intend to provide 10Mb upload to as an anonymous Tor Node I could piggyback on for torrents and 5 Mb to an anime/manga irc bot so I can get pre-release anime and manga fansub in my favored groups (if I read it 5 mn before you, I'm still happy...)
The remanining 35Mb up are "for my personnal use".
I'm wondering about the possibility of a private VPN, to share "picture/videos of the kids/anything we damn want" among trusted friends...like that private encrypted/torrent swarm we heard about on /.
50Mb up should be enough for almost anything...
My point being, how much would it cost me WITHOUT "Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Win/4.0 Mac, Corel Painter Essentials 4.0, and Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 GE"
Because, you see, I don't need them...And I must somehow pay for them along with the tablet, because except for FOSS, there is no free beer...
Darn !
There goes my desk, phone, computer. 8)
Empty cubicles, guys ?
I, for one, welcome the next topic on "the best/cheapest 15%gray paint/cover you can slap on the cubicle" (tm)
French cheese ? (roquefort) 300% import tax.
Goose liver ? (foie gras) 300% tax.
Reason ? France doesn't want to import "hormon treated" veal meet. (ever had a piece of veal that lost 50% of it's size when cooked ? => doped veal grow much much faster...)
Importing french wine ? 50 different laws (one per state), named importers that all ask for exclusivity and try to dictate their prices because, well, they are the only ones you can pass through to import wine...
Opening a good french restaurant in the US with imported french delicacies ? bliss...
Disclaimer : I don't work for Sony but I have a PRS-505. Been reading almost exclusively on it for almost two years now.
1/ You can buy ebooks from Sony. Or get the from Gutemberg. Or Baen. Or anywhere else you want.
2/ No GSM in it. But it means they cannot revoke any licenced/copyrighted material remotely. And hell, who really needs a gsm in their book ? Remotely downloading a newspaper ? I'm too cheap to pay both for the news AND the data download. I got a computer doing that for me already...
3/ Converting books/manga/newspaper tools available for Windows/linux/Mac. I even got a linux script to mass tranform mangas in a pdf to read on the PRS-505 (using Gimp scripts to sharpen/resize...)
4/ nice, well placed buttons.
5/ Nice and pretty body
6/ Customised firmwares exist ...
7 / takes SDHC and Sony memory sticks
8/ recharge using USB or a wall wart (the dedicated one or a psp charger works)I read everyday 1-2 hours on it and recharge once a week.
Only problem I have is I cannot "shuffle" the book, flipping pages to find a chapter I want to re-read as easily I Ican with a paper book.
Compare both, make your choice. I hade both the kindle 1 and the Sony to choose from, and the PRS-505 won, not even a real match. Seen the kindle 2...well : let's just say I'm still very happy with the Sony.
I took it to extended trips in on 4 continents, and nothing beats having 400 books on a card and 800 mangas when the place you go to has neither tv nor radio...the music player isn't very good, but you have the option.
having put the decoding tasks to the linux server, the xbox would actually be able to do the task now. It would not ne used to decode anymore, it just has to grab the decoded video flux and put it on the screen. streaming it only.
=> same for the wall-wart. It doesn't have to have a decoding dsp, it just has to be able to grab the stream and put it on video-out.
"Surely 1.2GHz would be enough for anybody" 8)