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Let alone an explosive decompression, which could be caused simply by unlatching the cargo loading doors.
Opening a hatch while in-flight is impossible. To open a hatch, first it must move inward a bit to clear the jamb. The difference in pressure holds it in place...just a 2-psi difference (which is a conservative estimate; it's probably much greater) exerts somewhere around one ton of force on the inside of the hatch. When's the last time you tried to lift your car?
History has showed that Roosevelt was aware of the pending attack on Pearl Harbor. This is fact.
No it is not! It is a rumour that has not been confirmed or even shown to be probable.
My understanding is that an experimental radar installation detected the incoming Japanese fleet and fired off a warning to Washington, but it somehow got misrouted or misplaced. As a result, word of the pending attack never got through until it was too late. This would tend to refute the original poster's assertion.
The local paper has some links in their copy of an AP story on this incident. HTH, and whoever's responsible ought to consider that his days are numbered.
The article mentions that the failed part was made of aluminium, but that the rapid prototyper can only make parts out of polycarbonate, wax, etc. I'm guessing that the part they "printed out" was only being used as a temporary replacement until the actual aluminium pulley could be shipped to them. Still, we're on the way!
Read the article...it says they have a replacement aluminum pulley on hand now, but they're leaving the part they fabbed in the machine to see how long it'll last. When the article was written, it had been in there one month already...not bad for a chunk of plastic. (Then again, polycarbonate is fairly tough stuff...more so than most other plastics.)
I thought of doing that, but realized I pay for the electricity in our apartment and it may not be a wise choice to have a pluthera (sp?) of old machines running all day and all night eating up juice.
I used to think power wasn't that big a deal. Last year, I had four machines up and running 24/7, doing GIMPS when they weren't doing other stuff. My electric bill topped out around $90 (for a one-bedroom condo in Las Vegas).
This year, rates went up about 50% from last year. I've cut back to one machine (a server/firewall) that stays up all the time, plus another machine that's fired up only when it's in use. Even with the rate increase, my biggest electric bill so far this year was less than $70.
I sold two of the older machines recently, but still have one computer built up from old parts that sits around as a spare and parts to build another computer or two. The spare was useful when I needed to back up my TiVo recently.
As for noise...you get used to it if you keep a bunch of boxen running all the time.:-)
if more people would do this, we would have an
abundant supply of capable PC techs in the IT
industry instead of the morons that are now the
majority.
It's a good idea...which means it's not likely to be implemented in any government-run school. I imagine that the average school's idea of a "computer class" today probably isn't much different from the classes I took in the second half of the 80s--how to switch the machine on, simple file management, how to use the word-processing software, etc. I usually convinced the teacher to let me do more challenging (read: interesting) stuff, but I don't think you would get a teacher to go along with the idea of kids ripping computers apart and putting them back together. They wouldn't have a clue what's going on and wouldn't know how to evaluate the work done and monitor its progress.
(I suppose it's possible you might find a teacher with a clue...then again, a snowstorm might blow through hell one day. At the risk of verging slightly off-topic, it should be remembered that the goal of public schools isn't to produce citizens who can think for themselves. As originally designed, they mold young skulls full of mush into compliant, obedient sheeple. This tendency runs counter to the analytical skills needed to work with computers--to program them, build them, diagnose their problems, etc.)
Probably the most compelling reason to upgrade to windows XP is remote desktop connections.
VNC over SSH does this already...I use it all the time to connect to Win98 & Win2K machines sitting behind Linux firewalls. All the stuff you need (VNC & Cygwin) is free (speech), too.
hrm.. looks like I still have to get nero though. I can't burn a vcd or svcd.
VCDImager works pretty well for producing BIN/CUE images of (S)VCDs. It's even free (as in speech). You can then use FireBurner, CDRWin, or any other program that handles BIN/CUE images to burn your CDs. I've used VCDImager and FireBurner to make a couple dozen SVCDs...things are really kicking in to high gear now that I can rip video from my TiVo.
How 'bout they call it CompaqHP or something stupid like that and let the part of HP that makes test gear (the kind of stuff they started with right after WWII) be Hewlett-Packard again.
After WWII? They got their start before the war. Their first product was an audio-frequency generator, and their first customer (IIRC) was Disney, who used this generator in the production of Fantasia...which was released in 1937 (again IIRC).
As for Agilent, it would probably not look too good for them if they've put in the time to get people to associate them with HP test gear, only to throw all that away and go back to being HP. Besides, in the general public's mind, HP is probably associated more with computers, printers, and related items than with test equipment. (What are the odds that Joe Schmuck AOLer, whose VCR still blinks 12:00, would even know what an oscilloscope is?)
readying content eh? Doesn't that remind anyone of excite's now-doomed business model?
The @Home business, although not stellar, has been able to round up significantly more subscribers than DSL. If or when the company goes under, it's because the content/portal side hemorrhaged money.
Here in Las Vegas, the cable-modem service is Cox Express, not Cox @Home. Their website is primarily customer service and tech support for cable-TV and cable-modem customers. They're not in the content business; they basically provide a big fat pipe to the Internet, which is all I really want anyway. That's all that any ISP is really supposed to do, IMHO.
(They do a pretty good job of keeping it running, too...a hell of a lot better than Sprint does at keeping DSL going. We have both cable-modem and DSL service at work (don't ask why). For the past two weeks or so, the DSLAM that services our part of town has been on-and-off. Before that, there have been other reliability issues. The worst that's happened with the cable modem, OTOH, are all the morons running unpatched IIS who've let their systems get infected with the Code Red worm.)
"And Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake etc. don't feature proprietary configuration tools?"
Absolutely not - that's a big difference.
...and what, exactly, are RPM, apt-get, linuxconf, etc.? Those are package managers and system configurators tied to other Linux distros. YaST just rolls all of the same functionality into one program. As noted earlier, RPM is also included since SuSE packages are RPM-based. Personally, I would prefer if SuSE used tarballs as I find them easier to deal with at the command line than proprietary formats such as RPM and DEB. SuSE works well enough for other people's systems that I need to be able to keep going without too much fuss, though I prefer LFS these days for my personal systems.
And there's nothing wrong with that mentality either. Computers are tools. My machine takes like a minute to boot the OS... how many other tools or appliances take that long to boot? What if your TV took 60 seconds before it could perform its task?
You must never have heard of vacuum tubes.:-) OK, so the average tube TV took maybe 30 seconds or so before it got up to speed, but still...
(I speak from experience...when I was a kid (and no, I'm not that old...we're talking mid-70s to early 80s here), we had a 13" B&W TV, tube-based and probably of early-70s manufacture, in the kitchen. It took half a minute or so for it to get going.)
Even today, the radio on which I listen to Rush at home is a fifty-year-old RCA that I rebuilt a few years ago. It takes some time to warm up as well.
Nope, they haven't figured out the file format yet.
I'm pretty sure ExtractStream has been brought up on/. before...but search isn't turning up anything for it (or for TiVo, for that matter...the database is probably still fscked up). 9th Tee has it available for download from its TiVoNet page, and you could probably find it in other places as well.
Also, how easy/hard is it to cut a mpeg video, say, to remove commercials?
If it's MPEG-1, you can load it into VirtualDub directly. If it's MPEG-2 (which it would be if it comes from a DVD or a TiVo), VFAPI can frameserve into VirtualDub. In either case, VirtualDub can frameserve into TMPGEnc for (re)encoding to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2.
It seems to me that roughly every 5th frame is uncompressed, so you ought to be able to slice it on those boundaries.
If you're recompressing the video (which will probably be needed to fit it onto VCD or SVCD, if that's what you want to do with it), you can slice the video on any frame boundary. If you're trying to slice the video without recompressing, it depends on the GOP setting used to create the video. Most video created with TMPGEnc gets created at that program's default GOP setting of 1-5-2-1, which produces one I-frame for every 18 frames. (I-frames are still compressed; they just don't depend on neighboring frames for decoding.)
Then along came someone else with a devious scheme of giving you the convenience and speed of making stupid purchases like a credit card bundled with the wallet-emptying feeling of a check or cash. All hail the debit/check card!!!:-)
I don't know about you (or most other people), but I sure as hell know the source of the $$$ linked to my check card. It doesn't get treated like a credit card. (Then again, I'm nowhere near as care[less|free] with my credit cards as before...there's a huge balance I want to get out from under.)
I thought the big deal with "smart cards," though, was that they were supposed to be usable as stored-value cards. I've never seen a good reason for their existence. Having one is touted as being not much different than carrying cash. Carrying a large wad of money—or the equivalent in a "smart card"—is the last thing I want to do. I carry as little cash as possible...typically no more than $20. I pay for nearly everything with a check card; the cash pays for those few places (fast-food joints and such) that either don't take check cards or charge a fee for their use. If I lose a check card or a credit card, I call the bank. They invalidate the old card and send a new one. If I lose a "smart card," it's just like losing cash—I'm fscked. I'd love to hear someone attempt to explain how this could possibly be a Good Thing.
It also has the advantage of being able to stream over standard phone lines, for those of us who don't have cat5 strung out to the living room.
...and who on/. doesn't have Cat5 into the living room? That's one of the first things I put in when I moved in where I am now...needed a run from the cable modem to the server closet, which also went back out to a computer that was parked under the TV, serving as a DVD/MP3 player. I yanked the computer out from under the TV when I got my Apex DVD player, but the second run (two RJ45 plugs on each end of one cable, actually) will get put back into action when my TiVoNET arrives next week.
Asking Noam Chomsky if the media has a leftward tilt is like asking Lenin if capitalism is really better than communism...of course he'll deny it. Still, if you analyze the quote you provided, it would seem, up to the last sentence, to support my assertion. Modern statist liberalism revolves around an all-powerful government that interferes in your daily affairs, taxes you to within an inch of your life, etc. The dominant media culture supports this worldview.
That has never happened to me and I visit the CNN site on a daily basis. I distrust CNN for another reason: they are a little to friendly with the US government and often act as a PR machine for the US military.
You're kidding, right? Have you forgotten the bit with Peter Arnett asking questions back during the Gulf War that would have best remained unasked? On a more general note, CNN is definitely one of the more left-leaning "news" organizations in this country (and when speaking of TV, I use "news" loosely as most of 'em aren't worth the electrons that get agitated in transmission). Given who (Ted Turner) used to run it, this should be no surprise.
My distrust of CNN goes back much further than AOHell's buyout of Time Warner, though that certainly doesn't help things any. (I tend to avoid anything tied to AOHell...it was a minor annoyance when they bought Mapquest and Nullsoft, but I couldn't have cared less about Netscape or Mirabilis.)
You could probably filter out Ranger Inc's IP addresses out at your firewall.
rangerinc.com resolves to 209.95.126.167. So does their webserver. whois doesn't say much about what range of addresses they own, so you'd probably want to cut off the entire subnet at your firewall.
The difference between recording to cassettes and recording to CDs (no apostrophe please) is that no one uses cassettes to store computer backups and transfer their work to other computers.
My TI-99/4A, VIC-20, and CoCo 2 would disagree with you on that point...:-)
Bad idea. Last time i checked TTSSH was still SSH1 only, which is prone to man-in-the-middle attacks.
I use PuTTY (which supports SSH2) if I need to access stuff on the Linux server at home, but I'm currently using TTSSH to do VNC-over-SSH to access a Win2K workstation behind the server. I know SSH1 has its issues, as you mention...but is there an SSH2 client (preferably at least "free as in beer") for Windows that does port forwarding? I'd rather not give the schmucks who closed off the original SSH my money if I can avoid it. PuTTY is good (small enough to suck down from my server to a remote computer if I need it), but it doesn't do the port forwarding needed to get VNC to work.
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By the time this message scrolled into view, some crackhead moderator had kicked it down as redundant. The sentiment of the poster is appreciated. As for the moderator, may you rot in hell along with Osama bin Laden, his henchmen, and whoever else aided and abetted this crime against humanity. This is neither the time nor the place for your sick and twisted outlook on life and on current events, so if you have nothing positive to contribute, STFU.
The local paper has some links in their copy of an AP story on this incident. HTH, and whoever's responsible ought to consider that his days are numbered.
BTW, the correct spelling is "aluminum." :-)
This year, rates went up about 50% from last year. I've cut back to one machine (a server/firewall) that stays up all the time, plus another machine that's fired up only when it's in use. Even with the rate increase, my biggest electric bill so far this year was less than $70.
I sold two of the older machines recently, but still have one computer built up from old parts that sits around as a spare and parts to build another computer or two. The spare was useful when I needed to back up my TiVo recently.
As for noise...you get used to it if you keep a bunch of boxen running all the time. :-)
(I suppose it's possible you might find a teacher with a clue...then again, a snowstorm might blow through hell one day. At the risk of verging slightly off-topic, it should be remembered that the goal of public schools isn't to produce citizens who can think for themselves. As originally designed, they mold young skulls full of mush into compliant, obedient sheeple. This tendency runs counter to the analytical skills needed to work with computers--to program them, build them, diagnose their problems, etc.)
As for Agilent, it would probably not look too good for them if they've put in the time to get people to associate them with HP test gear, only to throw all that away and go back to being HP. Besides, in the general public's mind, HP is probably associated more with computers, printers, and related items than with test equipment. (What are the odds that Joe Schmuck AOLer, whose VCR still blinks 12:00, would even know what an oscilloscope is?)
(They do a pretty good job of keeping it running, too...a hell of a lot better than Sprint does at keeping DSL going. We have both cable-modem and DSL service at work (don't ask why). For the past two weeks or so, the DSLAM that services our part of town has been on-and-off. Before that, there have been other reliability issues. The worst that's happened with the cable modem, OTOH, are all the morons running unpatched IIS who've let their systems get infected with the Code Red worm.)
(I speak from experience...when I was a kid (and no, I'm not that old...we're talking mid-70s to early 80s here), we had a 13" B&W TV, tube-based and probably of early-70s manufacture, in the kitchen. It took half a minute or so for it to get going.)
Even today, the radio on which I listen to Rush at home is a fifty-year-old RCA that I rebuilt a few years ago. It takes some time to warm up as well.
I thought the big deal with "smart cards," though, was that they were supposed to be usable as stored-value cards. I've never seen a good reason for their existence. Having one is touted as being not much different than carrying cash. Carrying a large wad of money—or the equivalent in a "smart card"—is the last thing I want to do. I carry as little cash as possible...typically no more than $20. I pay for nearly everything with a check card; the cash pays for those few places (fast-food joints and such) that either don't take check cards or charge a fee for their use. If I lose a check card or a credit card, I call the bank. They invalidate the old card and send a new one. If I lose a "smart card," it's just like losing cash—I'm fscked. I'd love to hear someone attempt to explain how this could possibly be a Good Thing.
My distrust of CNN goes back much further than AOHell's buyout of Time Warner, though that certainly doesn't help things any. (I tend to avoid anything tied to AOHell...it was a minor annoyance when they bought Mapquest and Nullsoft, but I couldn't have cared less about Netscape or Mirabilis.)
I use PuTTY (which supports SSH2) if I need to access stuff on the Linux server at home, but I'm currently using TTSSH to do VNC-over-SSH to access a Win2K workstation behind the server. I know SSH1 has its issues, as you mention...but is there an SSH2 client (preferably at least "free as in beer") for Windows that does port forwarding? I'd rather not give the schmucks who closed off the original SSH my money if I can avoid it. PuTTY is good (small enough to suck down from my server to a remote computer if I need it), but it doesn't do the port forwarding needed to get VNC to work.