> "What have you lost, little men? Two suitcases of clothes and a digital camera???"
- Four childs lost their parents. - One man lost his wife and his four year old doughter - One newly married man lost his pregnant wife.
Here in Sweden theese kind of reports goes on and on. Still 1600 swedes are missing, and if you live here there is a good chance that you know someone on vacation in Thailand. They say about 20.000 swedes were on vacation there, thats about 0.2% of our population. On every office and workplace now we are counting in: Are those we know there safe or are they still missing.
In Sweden everybody has been chocked by this, it could well be one of the largets disasters that has hit us.
This will not dimish the sufferings of those who live in the disater areas, they have har times now and hard times to come, but even turists will mourn the loss of loved ones.
Reminds me of when I (from Sweden) was lost in St Petersburg. I thought that I had made pereparations to find the way back to the hotel. But I had the russian word for "subway" writen down on my note instead of the name of the subway station near the hotel.
I tried this (or similar) on the train from Stockholm to Karlstad last november.
I got i little box with an antenna and connected my ethernet port to the box. I got an IP-address via DHCP, but I'm sorry, I didn't check if it was a public or a NAT-address.
Anyway, I got full Internet access as far as I could tell. I could create a SSH-tunnel to my work and use it to read my email (and to do anything I usually do through SSH. It was a little bit slow, thou. I had urgent things to do for my employer, so I didn't have the time to really explore it's limits.
It didn't have any stupid requirements for operating system and was usable with my GNU/Linux laptop.
You can find some (commercial) information about it here: http://www.linx.se/templates/Page.aspx?id=3108
HP, for example, has been in too much hurry moving white collar work abroad.
Where I work we have to deal with some accounting they have move to India. If there is something wrong with the invoices we send them it seems impossible to correct them. When we had to deal with local accounting (I live in a small country in Europe) they were only a phone call away.
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> "What have you lost, little men? Two suitcases of clothes and a digital camera???"
- Four childs lost their parents.
- One man lost his wife and his four year old doughter
- One newly married man lost his pregnant wife.
Here in Sweden theese kind of reports goes on and on. Still 1600 swedes are missing, and if you live here there is a good chance that you know someone on vacation in Thailand. They say about 20.000 swedes were on vacation there, thats about 0.2% of our population. On every office and workplace now we are counting in: Are those we know there safe or are they still missing.
In Sweden everybody has been chocked by this, it could well be one of the largets disasters that has hit us.
This will not dimish the sufferings of those who live in the disater areas, they have har times now and hard times to come, but even turists will mourn the loss of loved ones.
As I remember it, the architecture for the IBM Personal Computer was already defined when Microsoft became involved.
When the PC was introduced I had a Z-80 based system with 64K memory and the CP/M operating system, so 640K was a huge increase in memory size.
The to five finished i i the same second.
2 .html
1: Pether Gethin 1:18:12.60
2: Ronnie Petterson +0.01s
3: Francois Cevert +0.09s
4: Mike Hailwood +0.18s
5: Howden Ganley, +0.61s
See http://www.formula1.com/archive/grandprix/1971/52
for complete results.
Reminds me of when I (from Sweden) was lost in St Petersburg. I thought that I had made pereparations to find the way back to the hotel. But I had the russian word for "subway" writen down on my note instead of the name of the subway station near the hotel.
I eventually found my hotel again.
I tried this (or similar) on the train from Stockholm to Karlstad last november.
I got i little box with an antenna and connected my ethernet port to the box. I got an IP-address via DHCP, but I'm sorry, I didn't check if it was a public or a NAT-address.
Anyway, I got full Internet access as far as I could tell. I could create a SSH-tunnel to my work and use it to read my email (and to do anything I usually do through SSH. It was a little bit slow, thou. I had urgent things to do for my employer, so I didn't have the time to really explore it's limits.
It didn't have any stupid requirements for operating system and was usable with my GNU/Linux laptop.
You can find some (commercial) information about it here: http://www.linx.se/templates/Page.aspx?id=3108
Does anybody have a non April 1 confirmation on this?
I have read two annuncements on this and both were date April 1.
Personally I think it sounds "too good to be true". Maybe it is?
Is it just me or is there anyone else who thinks that Darl McBride reminds about Bagdad Bob?
Darl "Bagdad Bob" McBride, how does that sound?
HP, for example, has been in too much hurry moving white collar work abroad.
Where I work we have to deal with some accounting they have move to India. If there is something wrong with the invoices we send them it seems impossible to correct them. When we had to deal with local accounting (I live in a small country in Europe) they were only a phone call away.
With all theese telescopes pointing at Mars, wouldn't Mars be slashdotted?