He had travelled on a long 12 hour flight from Europe (Poland) to the west coast of North America. He had then spent another 10 hours waiting in the baggage collection lounge for his family (who had instructed him to wait by the doors with his luggage). Altogether, he had been without decent sleep or a solid meal for 20+ hours. Anyone who has taken such a journey will probably agree that you can become irritable, annoyed and confused by simple things.
Why was he allowed to spend 10 hours in the baggage collection zone in the first place? Didn't anyone from the airport notice someone hanging around, and ask them if they had a problem (missing bags, wrong carousel, damaged suitcase, etc...).
For some systems, the OS backup disk installs a pre-fragmented image of Windows XP - at least according to the Microsoft disk defragmenter. For some bizare reason, data would always be stored at the far end of the partition (and both the middle and in-between).
Which network offers you the best quality of signal depends on where you are in each city, and what materials the building you are in is constructed from.
Mobile handsets can adjust the strength of signal they need to transmit, in order for the tower to receive a reliable signal. That might explain the difference in battery lifetime. Perhaps the cell towers are more spread apart. This would depend on population density.
If it is possible to recover drawings/paintings that are hidden under other paintings, and it is possible to recover data from hard drives that have been overwritten several times, would it not be possible to see if old recordings can be recovered off these magnetic tapes? Perhaps the alignment would be different every time they were overwritten?
Because the location is remote and there is not time to build a normal facility. The main purpose for these data centers is to handle expansion in limited areas, or while a new data center is being upgraded.
There are another applications for keeping everything on a truck:
The tax, which political leaders said would net about $200 million annually, will apply to businesses that offer facilities management, custom computer programming, system integration, installation and maintenance. But it will not cover Internet access, computer training and telecommunications.
So as long as some component of your project involves long-distance training over the Internet, you can rebrand your business product.
UK population is 65 million people, with 28 million households. But, 25 million people on benefits? Half the population is below or at the poverty level? No wonder taxes are so high.
But it's fairly easy to lose that amount of data. The actual amount of information for each person could easily be stored within 256 bytes. Even uncompressed, that would only be around 6 gigabytes of data, which could be stored on a couple of DVD's, which is probably what they lost.
The fibre is there, but what do you connect it to, if the incumbents are just standing there and keeping the door to the cable rooms locked, and not installing any new equipment?
I definitely agree that it is going to be just as easy to lose something like a memory stick, as to lose a laptop. Memory sticks get misplaced (unless maybe they are attached to something important like house keys). Laptops have become "lost" because they were left in the car or office and then stolen (as they were too heavy to carry). Memory sticks (like pens, pencils and erasers) get lost because they are very small and get misplaced under other objects or fall out of pockets. CD's aren't that much better because people seem to lose them whenever they open or close their car doors - maybe once a week I'll see a CD on the road that has been lost by someone.
The most convenient size seems to be something that is small enough to fit into a pocket and won't be lost, while heavy enough so that it won't fall out or be lost on a desk.
Why on earth are they storing such critical data on a laptop in the first place? If they wanted a local copy, they could store it on a external USB drive and carry that around in their pocket whenever they had to leave the laptop behind. Even better, can't they just have an encrypted VPN from their home office to their work place?
For a while, until I had my preferences set up, Google.com would constantly redirect me to Google.co.uk, which was annoying because the same search at work would result in something completely different from home.
Could this have happened in China. Perhaps the server was misconfigured?
There was kid in my primary school who introduced everyone to the concept of the 'drug dealer' by trying to get everyone to eat those "trick sweets" that taste sour, foam, and make your tongue turn green. He managed to trick a few kids, but by early interval, word had gone round and just about everyone knew what he was up to. Then he came up to me and tried to give away some of his "sweets". It was really funny to see him get totally steamed up over the fact that no-one was falling for his tricks any more.
Computer Science Degree BSc/BSc (Hons) UCAS Code G400 No. Places 120 Duration 5 years (sandwich course 4 years + 1 year placement in year 3) Study Options Full time
I've seen a lot of pay-as-you-go wireless broadband (3G/GPRS/HDSMA) PCMCIA cards advertised for laptops, which claim to offer 15 Mbytes of download for only 1 pound/day or less. Mainly for business customers at the moment, but the GPRS cards can be bought for around 16 pounds. If true, it seems to match wi-fi in usability and financial convenience.
It was one of the sites that www.tv-links.co.uk linked too. Putting aside the questionable availablity of just about every episode of every series that had ever been made, it was the most well laid out layout for viewing video-on-demand. Videos were arranged by category (drama,documentary,educational,comedy,sci-fi,fantasy,etc...) Then there was a list of titles, the seasons of each title, for each season, the name and number of that episode.
Far, far easier to nagivate through than the current video-on-demand menus on cable TV. Had it been a legitimate service, it would have been worth subscribing too.
They could try and have a whitelist of internet addresses that are permitted to have encrypted traffic (banks, online retailers as examples). They would then have to ban the basic programming API functionality of the socket programming library (recv, recvfrom, recvmsg, send, sendto, sendmsg).
After all, any unknown data compression format is effectively encrypted unless you know how the algorithm works.
When I was an intern, I got to use a real hardware packet sniffer for a clients site, then we went to a truckers restaurant for lunch. That evening I knew I had eaten something bad even in my sleep, as I kept seeing these 0x0BADF00D packet headers scrolling up.
Some UK Computer Science courses are three years on campus plus one year industrial placement for the ordinary degree, and an optional year for the Honours degree, which adds to a total of five years.
Eight to ten years is expected for USA universities. You are not just working full-time on your PhD, you are expected to work as a lab assistant as well on a part-time basis, which you do get paid for. It also depends on the subject. For a theoretical Computer Science degree your research equipment may only consist of a server quota and a desktop PC. For a hard science PhD, there may be outdoor trips to the actual research area. Maybe there are only fixed slots to perform experiments (access to telescopes for Astronomy, or access to collders for Physics).
Having a good undergraduate GPA demonstrates that he had an enthusiasm for his work and a genuine desire to learn. Some students are only interested in getting on campus for the free beer and scraping through each subject.
Some friends asked me to burn a number of Linux LiveDVD's so they could compare the different releases. In a single afternoon I downloaded around 16 Gigabytes of data, along with using bittorrent to get the Fedora Core 8 LiveDVD (which didn't seem to be on a downloadable ISO file anywhere).
I've seen a few websites where third parties are selling maintainance manuals for computer hardware. The system manuals themselves are encrypted but otherwise free to download. You have to pay some fee to get the password to the manual (for the maintenance of the site). Fortunately, there are other sites which have the manuals available free of charge.
It is interesting to see how you could be prosecuted for not knowing the password for such a file.
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I'm curious - is the warm air exhausted at the back or cool air drawn in the back? The former is how the Sony laptop works, my cats take great pleasure in sitting behind my laptop and going to sleep. It's the air intake underneath that gets clogged up though.
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My Sony VAIO had that problem. The fan vent on the underside was a bit clogged with dust, and it was obstructed by being on a flat surface (eg. table), even with the tabs folded out. The solution so far is to make sure there is at least a 2" clearance space around the fan vents on the underside.
Surely it wouldn't be that difficult to arrange the air cooling so that the vents are on the sides rather than underneath?
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He had travelled on a long 12 hour flight from Europe (Poland) to the west coast of North America. He had then spent another 10 hours waiting in the baggage collection lounge for his family (who had instructed him to wait by the doors with his luggage). Altogether, he had been without decent sleep or a solid meal for 20+ hours. Anyone who has taken such a journey will probably agree that you can become irritable, annoyed and confused by simple things.
Why was he allowed to spend 10 hours in the baggage collection zone in the first place? Didn't anyone from the airport notice someone hanging around, and ask them if they had a problem (missing bags, wrong carousel, damaged suitcase, etc...).
For some systems, the OS backup disk installs a pre-fragmented image of Windows XP - at least according to the Microsoft disk defragmenter. For some bizare reason, data would always be stored at the far end of the partition (and both the middle and in-between).
The Halting Problem
There are quite a wide variety of GSM frequencies
Which network offers you the best quality of signal depends on where you are in each city, and what materials the building you are in is constructed from.
Mobile handsets can adjust the strength of signal they need to transmit, in order for the tower to receive a reliable signal. That might explain the difference in battery lifetime. Perhaps the cell towers are more spread apart. This would depend on population density.
If it is possible to recover drawings/paintings that are hidden under other paintings, and it is possible to recover data from hard drives that have been overwritten several times, would it not be possible to see if old recordings can be recovered off these magnetic tapes? Perhaps the alignment would be different every time they were overwritten?
Because the location is remote and there is not time to build a normal facility. The main purpose for these data centers is to handle expansion in limited areas, or while a new data center is being upgraded.
There are another applications for keeping everything on a truck:
Valerie Walters Muscle Truck - a fitness centre that comes to you.
Office trailers
Mobile kitchen trailers
Hospital trailers
Mobile retail and dwelling units (Or shops and homes in containers).
Here's another article
The tax, which political leaders said would net about $200 million annually, will apply to businesses that offer facilities management, custom computer programming, system integration, installation and maintenance. But it will not cover Internet access, computer training and telecommunications.
So as long as some component of your project involves long-distance training over the Internet, you can rebrand your business product.
Look on the bright side, you have managed to get six -1's in a row. Very few other slashdotter's have managed to achieve such a perfect score.
UK population is 65 million people, with 28 million households. But, 25 million people on benefits? Half the population is below or at the poverty level? No wonder taxes are so high.
But it's fairly easy to lose that amount of data. The actual amount of information for each person could easily be stored within 256 bytes. Even uncompressed, that would only be around 6 gigabytes of data, which could be stored on a couple of DVD's, which is probably what they lost.
The fibre is there, but what do you connect it to, if the incumbents are just standing there and keeping the door to the cable rooms locked, and not installing any new equipment?
I definitely agree that it is going to be just as easy to lose something like a memory stick, as to lose a laptop. Memory sticks get misplaced (unless maybe they are attached to something important like house keys). Laptops have become "lost" because they were left in the car or office and then stolen (as they were too heavy to carry). Memory sticks (like pens, pencils and erasers) get lost because they are very small and get misplaced under other objects or fall out of pockets. CD's aren't that much better because people seem to lose them whenever they open or close their car doors - maybe once a week I'll see a CD on the road that has been lost by someone.
The most convenient size seems to be something that is small enough to fit into a pocket and won't be lost, while heavy enough so that it won't fall out or be lost on a desk.
Why on earth are they storing such critical data on a laptop in the first place? If they wanted a local copy, they could store it on a external USB drive and carry that around in their pocket whenever they had to leave the laptop behind. Even better, can't they just have an encrypted VPN from their home office to their work place?
For a while, until I had my preferences set up, Google.com would constantly redirect me to Google.co.uk, which was annoying because the same search at work would result in something completely different from home.
Could this have happened in China. Perhaps the server was misconfigured?
I don't know - but Iraq doesn't exactly seem like a bank holiday Superbowl:
Parents of a U.S. Marine Who Committed Suicide After Returning Home from Iraq File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Veterans Affairs
PTSD reports up 20,000 in a year
Army Suicides Highest in 26 Years
There was kid in my primary school who introduced everyone to the concept of the 'drug dealer' by trying to get everyone to eat those "trick sweets" that taste sour, foam, and make your tongue turn green. He managed to trick a few kids, but by early interval, word had gone round and just about everyone knew what he was up to. Then he came up to me and tried to give away some of his "sweets". It was really funny to see him get totally steamed up over the fact that no-one was falling for his tricks any more.
Perhaps I should have been more precise - In Scotland, there is an Honours year, and students can start at university when they are 17.
Here is the link to the undergraduate course selection list with the "Honours year" courses listed. The listing for the computer science course:
Computer Science
Degree BSc/BSc (Hons)
UCAS Code G400 No. Places 120
Duration 5 years (sandwich course 4 years + 1 year placement in year 3) Study Options Full time
I've seen a lot of pay-as-you-go wireless broadband (3G/GPRS/HDSMA) PCMCIA cards advertised for laptops, which claim to offer 15 Mbytes of download for only 1 pound/day or less. Mainly for business customers at the moment, but the GPRS cards can be bought for around 16 pounds. If true, it seems to match wi-fi in usability and financial convenience.
It was one of the sites that www.tv-links.co.uk linked too. Putting aside the questionable availablity of just about every episode of every series that had ever been made, it was the most well laid out layout for viewing video-on-demand. Videos were arranged by category (drama,documentary,educational,comedy,sci-fi,fantasy,etc...) Then there was a list of titles, the seasons of each title, for each season, the name and number of that episode.
Far, far easier to nagivate through than the current video-on-demand menus on cable TV. Had it been a legitimate service, it would have been worth subscribing too.
They could try and have a whitelist of internet addresses that are permitted to have encrypted traffic (banks, online retailers as examples). They would then have to ban the basic programming API functionality of the socket programming library (recv, recvfrom, recvmsg, send, sendto, sendmsg).
After all, any unknown data compression format is effectively encrypted unless you know how the algorithm works.
When I was an intern, I got to use a real hardware packet sniffer for a clients site, then we went to a truckers restaurant for lunch. That evening I knew I had eaten something bad even in my sleep, as I kept seeing these 0x0BADF00D packet headers scrolling up.
Some UK Computer Science courses are three years on campus plus one year industrial placement for the ordinary degree, and an optional year for the Honours degree, which adds to a total of five years.
Eight to ten years is expected for USA universities. You are not just working full-time on your PhD, you are expected to work as a lab assistant as well on a part-time basis, which you do get paid for. It also depends on the subject. For a theoretical Computer Science degree your research equipment may only consist of a server quota and a desktop PC. For a hard science PhD, there may be outdoor trips to the actual research area. Maybe there are only fixed slots to perform experiments (access to telescopes for Astronomy, or access to collders for Physics).
Having a good undergraduate GPA demonstrates that he had an enthusiasm for his work and a genuine desire to learn. Some students are only interested in getting on campus for the free beer and scraping through each subject.
Some friends asked me to burn a number of Linux LiveDVD's so they could compare the different releases. In a single afternoon I downloaded around 16 Gigabytes of data, along with using bittorrent to get the Fedora Core 8 LiveDVD (which didn't seem to be on a downloadable ISO file anywhere).
I've seen a few websites where third parties are selling maintainance manuals for computer hardware. The system manuals themselves are encrypted but otherwise free to download. You have to pay some fee to get the password to the manual (for the maintenance of the site). Fortunately, there are other sites which have the manuals available free of charge.
It is interesting to see how you could be prosecuted for not knowing the password for such a file.
I'm curious - is the warm air exhausted at the back or cool air drawn in the back? The former is how the Sony laptop works, my cats take great pleasure in sitting behind my laptop and going to sleep. It's the air intake underneath that gets clogged up though.
My Sony VAIO had that problem. The fan vent on the underside was a bit clogged with dust, and it was obstructed by being on a flat surface (eg. table), even with the tabs folded out. The solution so far is to make sure there is at least a 2" clearance space around the fan vents on the underside.
Surely it wouldn't be that difficult to arrange the air cooling so that the vents are on the sides rather than underneath?