This guy I used to work with had a computer with scsi hard drives. Well, one time he was flashing the bios on his scsi card, and the flash failed. He was in a bit of a bind, since the thing wouldn't boot with the card in place, but he needed the card to access his hard drives. He came up with the great idea of taking the card out, booting up, and waiting until the bios had finished the hardware detection, then jamming the scsi card into the pci bus. The first few attempts failed, burning some microfuses on the motherboard. He finally got it in just right, and the thing actually worked! Later on he called the mobo manufacturer for warranty service. They said, well, it sounds like you've blown the microfuses, but there is no way that could have happened! (He *neglected* to mention the hot-plugging incedent) They actually still replaced the thing under warranty, iirc.
I used to run a smallish water utility (22 customers). Our pump used 3-phase and was hooked up to a bank of capacitors. One day we had noticed that the pump was not working, and went and looked in the pump house. The capacitors had blown, completely blowing off the cover of the metal box they were in, and there was about 2 inches of capacitor paper/plastic all over the floor.
I remember jam. I had a friend who had Stacker, and it wirked really well, with some nice automated drive compression scripts. Well, Jam didn't have quite as many bells/whistles but it was pretty good. I think I wrote some batch files to move files and compress / grow the volume.
No. At least not according to isbn.nu or amazon but strangely enough, ISFDB does show Pournelle as an author. Well, lets check a more authoritative source... Library of Congress and you are definitely correct, Pournelle is also listed. Thanks for the info!
Tuning a 20,000 watt one to the WiFi band could not only disrupt the competition by jamming the band, but could overload and cook much of the low power stuff in the area.
Maybe he wants to DOS the contest.
To win the contest, he needs to establish a 2 way link. He can't win by blasting a one way signal.
If he is many miles away, the signal will have attenuated to usable power levels. This sounds like a good way to go, but the question is, can he modulate the signal?
Well, sounds to me that if the SCO execs were trying for a pump'n'dump, yesterday would have been a good day for it:-) Now there is probably no way they can.
I don't think that would be a good idea *grin*. In addition to being explosive, I think that Hydrazine, one of the main components of Astrolite, is highly corrosive. While there is no MSDS for Astrolite that I know of, it is a mix of two chemicals that I personally wouldn't want to consume:-) Here is the MSDS for Hydrazine. Note that it is highly toxic, corrosive, flamable, and probably carcinogenic in humans (it's known to cause cancer in lab animals).
I have one of the eMachines amd64 laptops, and overall it is quite nice. The only thing is that the ACPI is somewhat strange, so whenever I shut or open the lid, I get screens full of "unknown acpi event" messages.
You know, up until this exact moment, I thought that scene was just a bit of Holywood cluelessness. Wow!
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I always assumed that they just scanned the reciept barcode when processing the rebate. That way they could keep track of which ones have been issued. This would help eliminate duplicate submissions, and if a rebate check had already been sent, they could know that when accepting the item for a return.
Which begs the question of why they couldn't afford minimal testing on an experimental fusion reactor before inviting the public to an unshielded test. Also, Why after one relatively minor failure did they cancel an obviously successful program? The fusion may have had some side effects, such as the magnetism, but surely they could afford to do some work on a shielding system for it. And as was pointed out before, when creating such a thing, wouldn't a big red emergency shutdown button be a relatively easy thing to add?
It is not necessary to use a heavy mass at geosynchronous orbet. Instead, make the cable twice as long, and put the center of mass OF THE CABLE at geosynchronous orbit. That way you get extra-orbital launching basically for free.
*sigh* There is thankfully no such thing as IIS for linux. Netcraft has an explanation in their FAQ. The most likely cuplrit is if they are using akamai (which runs linux) to load balance their content.
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This guy I used to work with had a computer with scsi hard drives. Well, one time he was flashing the bios on his scsi card, and the flash failed. He was in a bit of a bind, since the thing wouldn't boot with the card in place, but he needed the card to access his hard drives. He came up with the great idea of taking the card out, booting up, and waiting until the bios had finished the hardware detection, then jamming the scsi card into the pci bus. The first few attempts failed, burning some microfuses on the motherboard. He finally got it in just right, and the thing actually worked! Later on he called the mobo manufacturer for warranty service. They said, well, it sounds like you've blown the microfuses, but there is no way that could have happened! (He *neglected* to mention the hot-plugging incedent) They actually still replaced the thing under warranty, iirc.
I used to run a smallish water utility (22 customers). Our pump used 3-phase and was hooked up to a bank of capacitors. One day we had noticed that the pump was not working, and went and looked in the pump house. The capacitors had blown, completely blowing off the cover of the metal box they were in, and there was about 2 inches of capacitor paper/plastic all over the floor.
I remember jam. I had a friend who had Stacker, and it wirked really well, with some nice automated drive compression scripts. Well, Jam didn't have quite as many bells/whistles but it was pretty good. I think I wrote some batch files to move files and compress / grow the volume.
This is exactly right. The only question is, who is the puppeteer? *tin foil hat on*
:-)
Also, nice sig
Yes, because the last thing we want is for the sun to start lasing.
No. At least not according to isbn.nu or amazon but strangely enough, ISFDB does show Pournelle as an author. Well, lets check a more authoritative source... Library of Congress and you are definitely correct, Pournelle is also listed. Thanks for the info!
well, don't forget that altavista, known primarily around here for The Fish actually has a pretty good search engine as well.
Well, sounds to me that if the SCO execs were trying for a pump'n'dump, yesterday would have been a good day for it :-) Now there is probably no way they can.
I don't think that would be a good idea *grin*. In addition to being explosive, I think that Hydrazine, one of the main components of Astrolite, is highly corrosive. While there is no MSDS for Astrolite that I know of, it is a mix of two chemicals that I personally wouldn't want to consume :-) Here is the MSDS for Hydrazine. Note that it is highly toxic, corrosive, flamable, and probably carcinogenic in humans (it's known to cause cancer in lab animals).
I have one of the eMachines amd64 laptops, and overall it is quite nice. The only thing is that the ACPI is somewhat strange, so whenever I shut or open the lid, I get screens full of "unknown acpi event" messages.
Whoah! Where do you work that you have a Tesla coil?!?!?! Is it actually used for your work, or is it just for fun?
You know, up until this exact moment, I thought that scene was just a bit of Holywood cluelessness. Wow!
2 ^ 128 = 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
number 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
three hundred forty undecillion.
two hundred eighty-two decillion.
three hundred sixty-six nonillion.
nine hundred twenty octillion.
nine hundred thirty-eight septillion.
four hundred sixty-three sextillion.
four hundred sixty-three quintillion.
three hundred seventy-four quadrillion.
six hundred seven trillion.
four hundred thirty-one billion.
seven hundred sixty-eight million.
two hundred eleven thousand.
four hundred fifty-six.
true. The momentum does come from the rotation of the earth, so saying it's free is not quite correct.
I think that the do not call list would be a great data set with a bunch of records and non-random data.
I always assumed that they just scanned the reciept barcode when processing the rebate. That way they could keep track of which ones have been issued. This would help eliminate duplicate submissions, and if a rebate check had already been sent, they could know that when accepting the item for a return.
Which begs the question of why they couldn't afford minimal testing on an experimental fusion reactor before inviting the public to an unshielded test. Also, Why after one relatively minor failure did they cancel an obviously successful program? The fusion may have had some side effects, such as the magnetism, but surely they could afford to do some work on a shielding system for it. And as was pointed out before, when creating such a thing, wouldn't a big red emergency shutdown button be a relatively easy thing to add?
yes, but he'd just get in the autodoc and grow it back. Another cool Nivenism using a micro wire was in the story Borderland of Sol.
D.) Pandas aren't bears
E.) the plural of leaf is leaves
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as did Niven in Rainbow Mars
It is not necessary to use a heavy mass at geosynchronous orbet. Instead, make the cable twice as long, and put the center of mass OF THE CABLE at geosynchronous orbit. That way you get extra-orbital launching basically for free.
and viewing will be mandatory.
*sigh* There is thankfully no such thing as IIS for linux. Netcraft has an explanation in their FAQ. The most likely cuplrit is if they are using akamai (which runs linux) to load balance their content.