In just a few months they had 4 or so damaging (or weaponizing - using their system to DOS others) attacks, and countless accesses to use it as a stepping stone.
One of the many reasons I let others do my web and email hosting...
Hook an AC motor up to a huge flywheel and then an AC generator. The AC motor dampens all high frequency problems, while the flywheel dampens all low frequency problems - depending on the size of the flywheel and the load it's driving, it can last for several seconds while a diesel generator kicks in.
Of course, you might not have the inclination to do that - in which case you can purchase whole house surge suppressors, and you can get large power conditioners...
but...
It's way overkill. Your devices are designed to handle the noisy AC line. Besides which, anything inside your house that could possibly switch on or off is going to contribute its own noise to your side of the power conditioner. Light switches, microwaves, washer/dryer, computer, TV, VCR, etc.
It's really not worth the cost - buy some good UPS/Power conditioners for the critical equipment and make a battery replacement/maintenance plan. If you are keen on saving your light bulbs, look into soft start light switches. If you are interested in lowering the number of spikes coming from your own devices research zero-crossing switches for motors, lights, etc.
I'm sorry...You appear to be under the impression that humanity should not suck this much.
What rock did you crawl out from under? Humanity sucked since primordial soup was invented.
As far as the amount of suckiness manifested in humanity, the reality is that it hasn't sucked more or less in recent years than it has ever sucked. You have simply attained a mental maturity where certian sucks have finally entered your point of view.
I needed the exact same thing for my office server backups (~2-3GB) onto a DVD drive. I couldn't find anything online that fit the bill, but I recently browsed the computer store (CompUsa in this case) and got a $70 package which does exactly what you want, including compression and all the usual backup/restore facilities you want to be used to. I have it set up with 5 DVD-RWs, one for each weekday, and I do a full backup to each since there's no need for speed or the hassle of incremental or differential backups.
Unfortunately for you, I don't recall the name of the package I'm using. Probably something like "BackupMyPC" or something like that. It had the two features I needed: Backup of network drives (some backup programs limit you so they can charge more for the 'professional' version) and backup directly to DVD - in this case a DVD+/-R/RW Firewire/USB2.0 (firewire worked, USB 2.0 didn't)
There were two different packages (same cost) that did what I needed. This one is an adaptation of, IIRC, Veritas backup software, so I chose it based on that.
Anyway, they exist. If you need to know the particular package I'm using, post a reply here to remind me, and I'll post it as a reply to this message in a day or two.
"How do I perform brain surgery on myself?"
Google Trepanning
"What is the best way to travel about in a war zone?"
Google Travel Guides
"What is the best way to tell my spouse that she needs to lose A LOT of weight?"
Google Divorce Attorney
Google Personal Ads
"How can I get close to the President while carrying a handgun?"
Google Plastic Handgun
Google Flak Jacket
Google Power of Attorney Life Support
Google Plastic Surgeon
Google Howto Mentally Deficient Defence
Google Howto Survive Maximum Security Prison
"How can I steal power from a high tension line?"
Google Power Tap High Voltage Transmission
Google Blackout
Get it?
Googled it...
Good.
-Adam
Re:The buddy system and a couple of rules
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Well, let's see - you can give the current a 1000ohm path from your hand, through your body, and out your foot, or you can give the current a 100 ohm path through your four fingers, palm, thumb and wrist, and lose your hand.
Instead of having a chance at reconstructing a lot of body, you have no hand - it can't be reconstructed at that point. But you won't have to reconstruct your other body parts.
In short, you NEVER, EVER, EVER ground yourself when working on high voltages. IIRC, anything over 60 volts is considered 'high voltage'.
The grounding straps you use for electronics have a built in resistor of 1Meg Ohm or so, but the insulation break down resistance is low, so it will act as a straight route to ground in the presence of high voltage - not good. You only use a certified grounding wire when working with non-powered equipment.
"In a normal 3x3 tic-tac-toe game, both players have a strategy to draw the game. In fact, any move by the first player leads to a draw with best play.
"Statistically the best opening move is in one of the corners, after this move has been made if the opponent takes any square other than the centre one, then the first player can play in such a way that a win is certain, as shown in the above game. "
Essentially they have 9 enzymes to specify the nine possible moves of the player. Once a move is chosen the enzyme for that position is added to each of the nine wells. The DNA inside each well is aware of its location, and, of course, each of the player's moves since the enzymes are added to each well.
The DNA in each well makes a simple logic decision based on all the enzymes it currently detects and turns green to indicate that the dna 'computer' is choosing to move there.
Overall it's an interesting logic puzzle, not only because it's done in DNA, but because the method involves seperate logic cells which have no means of communication - only the knowledge that they know everything that their brethren know.
It has weaknesses in that it's easy to fool them all individually so they all light green.
Probably has many good applications in chemical sniffing and quite possibly future DNA analysis speed ups.
Does it have the nuclear power plant where Homer works?
If so, can we finally push the big red button and find out what it does?
-Adam
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" I've had lots of cases that had stray voltage in them, and I got quite a buzz just standing with barefeet on unfinished concrete in my old basement touching the cases."
This would be due to a bad ground somewhere. In my father's house one computer had this issue because of a power strip (he had chained two of them and then used a regular heavy duty extension cord). The bad power strip had a disconnected ground.
Concrete is conductive, and the neutral AC line can develop 10s and 100s of volts over long distances with respect to ground.
So to fix this, make sure that the ground wire on the computer is tied to the same ground wire that should be coming from your power strips and extension cords. Don't ground the computer locally (causes other problems).
In other news, ground wires can develop voltages with respect to...ground. Usually, however, these voltages are much, much less than the neutral wire develops, because there is usually a lower resistance to ground through the wire than through your body, even if the wire is 100's of feet long.
"I think this is exactly the point: have a computer with lots of ready-to-use-software, OS, libraries, and you don't learn nearly as much as if you need to write all those nifty things yourself. And let a beginner use somethink like OpenGL/DirectX8 and they won't understand simple basics like "How do I draw a 3D cube on a 2D display?""
As a learning tool for testing low level theory I can see some value. However, they are targetting a very, very small niche market.
I can't see this being successful (selling more than a few thousand units) since you can learn all of that on a regular PC, and if you wanted to do assembly you can choose one of dozens of CPUs that are easily emulatable on any given PC.
The only advantage is you get to see your code work on actual low level hardware. It's good training if you want to learn low level stuff (including direct hardware interaction and potential pitfalls) and if you want to learn how to produce small, efficient code.
Again, neither of those things are really applicable to the vast majority of today's programmers, and since the hardware platform, unless very cheap ($10-$50), is not viable as a commercial product in and of itself, I simply cannot see it becoming much more than a puff of smoke, lasting maybe two years tops, and selling fewer than a thousand units.
But then, I've been wrong before, and I'll do it again - probably sooner rather than later.
-Adam
Many have died that deserve life - can you give it to them? Be not so hasty to deal out death.
Wouldn't a single board computer be better in almost every respect? Take a lower end mini-itx board, develop a wall plug silent power supply for it, and all you'd then have to make are compact flash adaptors and joystick adaptors.
It would be
Cheaper
Faster
More modern
Compatible with PC games
Easily use CDs and DVDs to store games
Could be much more accessable to a broader range of people
Sure, anyone can create a MAME machine from a PC, but no one has done so in a large scale manufacturing and marketting business.
The only downside I see is that it will encourage people to use the same bloated tools they are using now, rather than encouraging them to at least take a cursory glance at assembly, and gain experience in writing their own device drivers.
But then, most people won't want to touch either of those anyway (and they wouldn't have to on either platform).
There are always going to be more game programmers than driver programmers.
Besides, it'll give people an excuse to take a harder look at a few of the OS projects that are all assembly, or micro sized. Eventually someone will even come out with a cartidge that will play DVDs on these lower end systems, which doesn't happen now under windows because of the innefficiency of so many software and driver layers.
Honestly, unless the entire development kit including book is under $60, then it simply isn't worth it except to those few who want to learn a particular 16 bit uProcessor code and tinker.
Oh, and you three who will work to port NetBSD and Linux to it.
" this is not an improvement.
An improvement would be a reduction in bombs, not an improvement in technology."
improve
To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better.
To increase the productivity or value of (land or property).
To put to good use; use profitably.
The word improve is subjective - depending on your perspective something which one may feel is an improvement may not be seen as such to another.
I know that people have gotten in the habit of expressing opinions as facts.
However, there exist stupid people in the world. Gullible people. Therefore I humbly request that you, an intelligent Slashdot contributer (*) please use phrases such as "In my opinion..." or "I feel that..." so the mindless sheep won't assume you are stating fact, which applies to all perspectives. Many people feel that a bomb which only blows up the person(s) or object(s) it was intended for without also maiming the family next door would be an improvement to current weapons technology. You appear, however, to hold the higher ground that no weapon would be better than even the smaller weapon. However, this does not mean that this is not an improvement, at least to many people with a particular perpective in life.
Thank you for your kind attention to this matter.
-Adam
* This is not an oxymoron.
** Please append "according to prophecy" to each of my sentences as you read this.
I'm sorry about your husband, Ma'am, but he was carrying an Ipaq on his person, and said Ipaq was running linux with its wireless card configured as an access point.
No Ma'am, we are certianly considering changing the flamethrower for a taser or EMP weapon of some sort. Of course we understand - closed casket funerals always raise curiosity. Yes, Ma'am, we'll be sure to do that. Thank you for understanding.
You get the next one Bob, and remember that it's IPAQ, not IRAQ. You got Mrs Fitz really worked up over that slip-up.
The following compression algorithm reduces your 6 step proces to two steps, although the compressed file is a mite bit larger:
1. Recursively remove redundant 0's which appear next to 1's until 0's can no longer be removed
2. Let 1 represent a run of 1's of any length, and 0 represent a run of 0's of any length
You'll end up with a single bit file, either 1 (for any file containing one or more bits set) or 0 (for any file containing no bits set)
Since it is meant for windows programs and the OS itself, no one has bothered to develop the decompression algorithm.
Fortunately for them, there are tools that not only tell you how much signal loss you're experiencing in a given cable (so you can replace a lossy cable) but also tell you where a significant problem exists along the cable. Very useful for underwater and other long links - you have a good idea, to within a few cm, where the problem is. Go to it and splice - but, of course, only if the splice is going to be significantly less lossy than the problem itself.
Every company I've worked for has not only accepted but expected employee feedback on processes, so I may not be the best person to be accepting advice from.
Having said that, I can tell you that it really depends on how they react. I wouldn't want to lose my job over it, so I wouldn't voice my opinion unless I knew it was well received. As others have said, you are being paid to match your job description and do what your boss says. Do your work, do an excellent job, but don't tread on another's turf.
Also be ready to study the process, completely, from start to end. There may well be good reasons for doing something backwards.
Don't annoy people by being smarter than them, and don't assume they will believe you right off the bat. If you phrase the suggestion in such a way as to suggest you got it from some other reputable source, they may be much more receptive than "The net" or yourself as "That kid in cubicle 3A"
I know you probably have the organization's best interests at heart (right?), but they may see you (honestly- some people think in these terms) as making a power grab, or brown-nosing. You may not be able to dispel these feelings, but if you lay out your case carefully, and explain things on a basic (but not too basic) level, they may not feel them so strongly.
Understand the process as much as possible
Understand the inefficiency
Understand the solution
Understand your audience (and how to explain all this to them)
Understnad that any ideas you put forth you may have to implement without slowing your current work
"A total of 253 RIAA subpoenas were listed as of July 22 through the federal court system's paid online database, PACER."
Subpeonas 0 and 255 are reserved for networks (whole ISPs - all your user list are belong to us) and broadcast subpeonas (first use of SPAMMED Subpeonas) respectively.
"Why would you consider using FRESH, potable, treated water to cool your room?"
As I've already explained, it's cheap, available, and can be set up quickly - it meets the poster's needs.
"Many parts of the world are under water shortages, so it seems to me that you would want to conserve water and find other alternatives."
Ah. So you are suggesting that by saving water here, shortages will not occur elsewhere? I'm afraid you are generalizing a little too much. Most municipal water systems are self contained, and get water locally (wells, rivers, lakes, runoff, etc) I'd be interested in seeing research that shows how preserving my water here helps someone who lives on another continent. I live in Michigan - I've got plenty of water. Need more? I can dig a well and get more. Still need more? Truck it in from any one of dozens of companies who provide just such a service. Still more?
I can buy property with a very large lake on it. It saddens me to see others suffering without water - but you can't really be suggesting that I should feel guilty because I live in an area where it is so abundant.
"Also, if you start pulling a few hundred gallons a day more than you normally do, you'll have the Water Company on you pretty quickly -- they don't like huge sinks like this."
Really? I'm sure an arrangement could be worked out - since the poster stated this was an emergency. Futhermore, the water company doesn't usually have the capability to find who is using an extra 100 gallons of water a day. They can name the trunk, perhaps, but in the end it usually means more money for them, and unless the system is severely over burdened it would be a waste of money and resources to spend time finding the abuser. I never suggested the poster should skirt rules and regulations - they should check the contract they have with the water utility.
"Needless to say, cooling in this manner is also illegal in most states in the US."
I don't find it needless at all, since I've never heard of that law/regulation from a reputable source. I'd like to see more than you assertion on this statement. I wouldn't be surprised if you were right, but it seems to be repeated many times in this story without any sources.
As water usually comes to the building through undreground pipes, it attains about 50-60 degrees farenheit.
Bring a hose into the room, and use a car radiator or cheap, large coil of copper tubing, and run the water through that and into a drain. Blow air through and you've got a fairly inexpensive way to cool.
Water is not expensive, but you could go through hundreds of gallons a day. Limit your water usage by watching the temperature of the incoming and outgoing water, and placing a valve in the outlet. If the temperature difference is great (60 in, 80 out) then let the water through a bit faster.
You could even set up several of these in series so you can cool different portions of the room. Think about how the air circulates - if you can get the air to go clockwise around the room the fans will use less energy, and the whole room should reach the same temperature.
Of course, it goes without saying that you need to be careful not only of leaks but condensation. Place buckets under the coils, and connections/transitions - make sure you have no leaks, and dump the buckets occasionally.
If the cooling isn't great enough, put a set of coils just after the inlet into a trashcan of water and dry ice.
Note that it may take several minutes of water running before you actually get the cooler water, depending on how much of the building it has to travel through to get to you. If it goes through a lot of the building, you may not have very cool water at all, as it'll attain the temperature of the building. Give it a good half hour or hour at full blast and measure it to see what is possible.
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In just a few months they had 4 or so damaging (or weaponizing - using their system to DOS others) attacks, and countless accesses to use it as a stepping stone.
One of the many reasons I let others do my web and email hosting...
-Adam
Yeah, it's called a big freaking mechanical UPS.
Hook an AC motor up to a huge flywheel and then an AC generator. The AC motor dampens all high frequency problems, while the flywheel dampens all low frequency problems - depending on the size of the flywheel and the load it's driving, it can last for several seconds while a diesel generator kicks in.
Of course, you might not have the inclination to do that - in which case you can purchase whole house surge suppressors, and you can get large power conditioners...
but...
It's way overkill. Your devices are designed to handle the noisy AC line. Besides which, anything inside your house that could possibly switch on or off is going to contribute its own noise to your side of the power conditioner. Light switches, microwaves, washer/dryer, computer, TV, VCR, etc.
It's really not worth the cost - buy some good UPS/Power conditioners for the critical equipment and make a battery replacement/maintenance plan. If you are keen on saving your light bulbs, look into soft start light switches. If you are interested in lowering the number of spikes coming from your own devices research zero-crossing switches for motors, lights, etc.
-Adam
"Does humanity really have to suck this badly?"
I'm sorry...You appear to be under the impression that humanity should not suck this much.
What rock did you crawl out from under? Humanity sucked since primordial soup was invented.
As far as the amount of suckiness manifested in humanity, the reality is that it hasn't sucked more or less in recent years than it has ever sucked. You have simply attained a mental maturity where certian sucks have finally entered your point of view.
Wait till you're older, it'll blow your mind!
-Adam
I needed the exact same thing for my office server backups (~2-3GB) onto a DVD drive. I couldn't find anything online that fit the bill, but I recently browsed the computer store (CompUsa in this case) and got a $70 package which does exactly what you want, including compression and all the usual backup/restore facilities you want to be used to. I have it set up with 5 DVD-RWs, one for each weekday, and I do a full backup to each since there's no need for speed or the hassle of incremental or differential backups.
Unfortunately for you, I don't recall the name of the package I'm using. Probably something like "BackupMyPC" or something like that. It had the two features I needed: Backup of network drives (some backup programs limit you so they can charge more for the 'professional' version) and backup directly to DVD - in this case a DVD+/-R/RW Firewire/USB2.0 (firewire worked, USB 2.0 didn't)
There were two different packages (same cost) that did what I needed. This one is an adaptation of, IIRC, Veritas backup software, so I chose it based on that.
Anyway, they exist. If you need to know the particular package I'm using, post a reply here to remind me, and I'll post it as a reply to this message in a day or two.
Nevermind, here it is.
-Adam
"How do I perform brain surgery on myself?"
Google Trepanning
"What is the best way to travel about in a war zone?"
Google Travel Guides
"What is the best way to tell my spouse that she needs to lose A LOT of weight?"
Google Divorce Attorney
Google Personal Ads
"How can I get close to the President while carrying a handgun?"
Google Plastic Handgun
Google Flak Jacket
Google Power of Attorney Life Support
Google Plastic Surgeon
Google Howto Mentally Deficient Defence
Google Howto Survive Maximum Security Prison
"How can I steal power from a high tension line?"
Google Power Tap High Voltage Transmission
Google Blackout
Get it?
Googled it...
Good.
-Adam
Well, let's see - you can give the current a 1000ohm path from your hand, through your body, and out your foot, or you can give the current a 100 ohm path through your four fingers, palm, thumb and wrist, and lose your hand.
Instead of having a chance at reconstructing a lot of body, you have no hand - it can't be reconstructed at that point. But you won't have to reconstruct your other body parts.
In short, you NEVER, EVER, EVER ground yourself when working on high voltages. IIRC, anything over 60 volts is considered 'high voltage'.
The grounding straps you use for electronics have a built in resistor of 1Meg Ohm or so, but the insulation break down resistance is low, so it will act as a straight route to ground in the presence of high voltage - not good. You only use a certified grounding wire when working with non-powered equipment.
-Adam
Let's all say this together:
LIBRARY
That was very good. Now, can anyone tell me what a library is...? Kenny?
"A Libelary is like a big internet in a building. It's where my sister and I go to get free access to copyrighted and otherwise unaccassable books."
That's a great answer Kenny! Next week we're going to learn about how to use the potty...
-Adam
from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe
"In a normal 3x3 tic-tac-toe game, both players have a strategy to draw the game. In fact, any move by the first player leads to a draw with best play.
"Statistically the best opening move is in one of the corners, after this move has been made if the opponent takes any square other than the centre one, then the first player can play in such a way that a win is certain, as shown in the above game. "
-Adam
Essentially they have 9 enzymes to specify the nine possible moves of the player. Once a move is chosen the enzyme for that position is added to each of the nine wells. The DNA inside each well is aware of its location, and, of course, each of the player's moves since the enzymes are added to each well.
The DNA in each well makes a simple logic decision based on all the enzymes it currently detects and turns green to indicate that the dna 'computer' is choosing to move there.
Overall it's an interesting logic puzzle, not only because it's done in DNA, but because the method involves seperate logic cells which have no means of communication - only the knowledge that they know everything that their brethren know.
It has weaknesses in that it's easy to fool them all individually so they all light green.
Probably has many good applications in chemical sniffing and quite possibly future DNA analysis speed ups.
-Adam
Does it have the nuclear power plant where Homer works?
If so, can we finally push the big red button and find out what it does?
-Adam
" I've had lots of cases that had stray voltage in them, and I got quite a buzz just standing with barefeet on unfinished concrete in my old basement touching the cases."
This would be due to a bad ground somewhere. In my father's house one computer had this issue because of a power strip (he had chained two of them and then used a regular heavy duty extension cord). The bad power strip had a disconnected ground.
Concrete is conductive, and the neutral AC line can develop 10s and 100s of volts over long distances with respect to ground.
So to fix this, make sure that the ground wire on the computer is tied to the same ground wire that should be coming from your power strips and extension cords. Don't ground the computer locally (causes other problems).
In other news, ground wires can develop voltages with respect to...ground. Usually, however, these voltages are much, much less than the neutral wire develops, because there is usually a lower resistance to ground through the wire than through your body, even if the wire is 100's of feet long.
-Adam
"I think this is exactly the point: have a computer with lots of ready-to-use-software, OS, libraries, and you don't learn nearly as much as if you need to write all those nifty things yourself. And let a beginner use somethink like OpenGL/DirectX8 and they won't understand simple basics like "How do I draw a 3D cube on a 2D display?""
As a learning tool for testing low level theory I can see some value. However, they are targetting a very, very small niche market.
I can't see this being successful (selling more than a few thousand units) since you can learn all of that on a regular PC, and if you wanted to do assembly you can choose one of dozens of CPUs that are easily emulatable on any given PC.
The only advantage is you get to see your code work on actual low level hardware. It's good training if you want to learn low level stuff (including direct hardware interaction and potential pitfalls) and if you want to learn how to produce small, efficient code.
Again, neither of those things are really applicable to the vast majority of today's programmers, and since the hardware platform, unless very cheap ($10-$50), is not viable as a commercial product in and of itself, I simply cannot see it becoming much more than a puff of smoke, lasting maybe two years tops, and selling fewer than a thousand units.
But then, I've been wrong before, and I'll do it again - probably sooner rather than later.
-Adam
Many have died that deserve life - can you give it to them? Be not so hasty to deal out death.
It would be
- Cheaper
- Faster
- More modern
- Compatible with PC games
- Easily use CDs and DVDs to store games
- Could be much more accessable to a broader range of people
Sure, anyone can create a MAME machine from a PC, but no one has done so in a large scale manufacturing and marketting business.The only downside I see is that it will encourage people to use the same bloated tools they are using now, rather than encouraging them to at least take a cursory glance at assembly, and gain experience in writing their own device drivers.
But then, most people won't want to touch either of those anyway (and they wouldn't have to on either platform).
There are always going to be more game programmers than driver programmers.
Besides, it'll give people an excuse to take a harder look at a few of the OS projects that are all assembly, or micro sized. Eventually someone will even come out with a cartidge that will play DVDs on these lower end systems, which doesn't happen now under windows because of the innefficiency of so many software and driver layers.
Honestly, unless the entire development kit including book is under $60, then it simply isn't worth it except to those few who want to learn a particular 16 bit uProcessor code and tinker.
Oh, and you three who will work to port NetBSD and Linux to it.
-Adam
An improvement would be a reduction in bombs, not an improvement in technology."
improve
- To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better.
- To increase the productivity or value of (land or property).
- To put to good use; use profitably.
The word improve is subjective - depending on your perspective something which one may feel is an improvement may not be seen as such to another. I know that people have gotten in the habit of expressing opinions as facts.However, there exist stupid people in the world. Gullible people. Therefore I humbly request that you, an intelligent Slashdot contributer (*) please use phrases such as "In my opinion..." or "I feel that..." so the mindless sheep won't assume you are stating fact, which applies to all perspectives. Many people feel that a bomb which only blows up the person(s) or object(s) it was intended for without also maiming the family next door would be an improvement to current weapons technology. You appear, however, to hold the higher ground that no weapon would be better than even the smaller weapon. However, this does not mean that this is not an improvement, at least to many people with a particular perpective in life.
Thank you for your kind attention to this matter.
-Adam
* This is not an oxymoron.
** Please append "according to prophecy" to each of my sentences as you read this.
I'm sorry about your husband, Ma'am, but he was carrying an Ipaq on his person, and said Ipaq was running linux with its wireless card configured as an access point.
No Ma'am, we are certianly considering changing the flamethrower for a taser or EMP weapon of some sort. Of course we understand - closed casket funerals always raise curiosity. Yes, Ma'am, we'll be sure to do that. Thank you for understanding.
You get the next one Bob, and remember that it's IPAQ, not IRAQ. You got Mrs Fitz really worked up over that slip-up.
-Adam
The following compression algorithm reduces your 6 step proces to two steps, although the compressed file is a mite bit larger:
1. Recursively remove redundant 0's which appear next to 1's until 0's can no longer be removed
2. Let 1 represent a run of 1's of any length, and 0 represent a run of 0's of any length
You'll end up with a single bit file, either 1 (for any file containing one or more bits set) or 0 (for any file containing no bits set)
Since it is meant for windows programs and the OS itself, no one has bothered to develop the decompression algorithm.
-Adam
And packetstorm, of course.
-Adam
Fortunately for them, there are tools that not only tell you how much signal loss you're experiencing in a given cable (so you can replace a lossy cable) but also tell you where a significant problem exists along the cable. Very useful for underwater and other long links - you have a good idea, to within a few cm, where the problem is. Go to it and splice - but, of course, only if the splice is going to be significantly less lossy than the problem itself.
-Adam
8. Place cut strand upright in co workers chair
-Adam
Every company I've worked for has not only accepted but expected employee feedback on processes, so I may not be the best person to be accepting advice from.
Having said that, I can tell you that it really depends on how they react. I wouldn't want to lose my job over it, so I wouldn't voice my opinion unless I knew it was well received. As others have said, you are being paid to match your job description and do what your boss says. Do your work, do an excellent job, but don't tread on another's turf.
Also be ready to study the process, completely, from start to end. There may well be good reasons for doing something backwards.
Don't annoy people by being smarter than them, and don't assume they will believe you right off the bat. If you phrase the suggestion in such a way as to suggest you got it from some other reputable source, they may be much more receptive than "The net" or yourself as "That kid in cubicle 3A"
I know you probably have the organization's best interests at heart (right?), but they may see you (honestly- some people think in these terms) as making a power grab, or brown-nosing. You may not be able to dispel these feelings, but if you lay out your case carefully, and explain things on a basic (but not too basic) level, they may not feel them so strongly.
Understand the process as much as possible
Understand the inefficiency
Understand the solution
Understand your audience (and how to explain all this to them)
Understnad that any ideas you put forth you may have to implement without slowing your current work
-Adam
"A total of 253 RIAA subpoenas were listed as of July 22 through the federal court system's paid online database, PACER."
Subpeonas 0 and 255 are reserved for networks (whole ISPs - all your user list are belong to us) and broadcast subpeonas (first use of SPAMMED Subpeonas) respectively.
-Adam
"its captain... not captian... sheesh :P"
Boromir was known for his terrible spelling problem when he had more than 2 arrows through his torso.
-Adam
Thank you for your attention to these matters.
-Adam
"My captian... My Kin -rewind- THWAP! THWAP!" Die, boromir, DIE!
"This has been brought up before"
Yes.
"but this is an egregious waste of resources"
Already noted.
"Why would you consider using FRESH, potable, treated water to cool your room?"
As I've already explained, it's cheap, available, and can be set up quickly - it meets the poster's needs.
"Many parts of the world are under water shortages, so it seems to me that you would want to conserve water and find other alternatives."
Ah. So you are suggesting that by saving water here, shortages will not occur elsewhere? I'm afraid you are generalizing a little too much. Most municipal water systems are self contained, and get water locally (wells, rivers, lakes, runoff, etc) I'd be interested in seeing research that shows how preserving my water here helps someone who lives on another continent. I live in Michigan - I've got plenty of water. Need more? I can dig a well and get more. Still need more? Truck it in from any one of dozens of companies who provide just such a service. Still more? I can buy property with a very large lake on it. It saddens me to see others suffering without water - but you can't really be suggesting that I should feel guilty because I live in an area where it is so abundant.
"Also, if you start pulling a few hundred gallons a day more than you normally do, you'll have the Water Company on you pretty quickly -- they don't like huge sinks like this."
Really? I'm sure an arrangement could be worked out - since the poster stated this was an emergency. Futhermore, the water company doesn't usually have the capability to find who is using an extra 100 gallons of water a day. They can name the trunk, perhaps, but in the end it usually means more money for them, and unless the system is severely over burdened it would be a waste of money and resources to spend time finding the abuser. I never suggested the poster should skirt rules and regulations - they should check the contract they have with the water utility.
"Needless to say, cooling in this manner is also illegal in most states in the US."
I don't find it needless at all, since I've never heard of that law/regulation from a reputable source. I'd like to see more than you assertion on this statement. I wouldn't be surprised if you were right, but it seems to be repeated many times in this story without any sources.
-Adam
As water usually comes to the building through undreground pipes, it attains about 50-60 degrees farenheit.
Bring a hose into the room, and use a car radiator or cheap, large coil of copper tubing, and run the water through that and into a drain. Blow air through and you've got a fairly inexpensive way to cool.
Water is not expensive, but you could go through hundreds of gallons a day. Limit your water usage by watching the temperature of the incoming and outgoing water, and placing a valve in the outlet. If the temperature difference is great (60 in, 80 out) then let the water through a bit faster.
You could even set up several of these in series so you can cool different portions of the room. Think about how the air circulates - if you can get the air to go clockwise around the room the fans will use less energy, and the whole room should reach the same temperature.
Of course, it goes without saying that you need to be careful not only of leaks but condensation. Place buckets under the coils, and connections/transitions - make sure you have no leaks, and dump the buckets occasionally.
If the cooling isn't great enough, put a set of coils just after the inlet into a trashcan of water and dry ice.
Note that it may take several minutes of water running before you actually get the cooler water, depending on how much of the building it has to travel through to get to you. If it goes through a lot of the building, you may not have very cool water at all, as it'll attain the temperature of the building. Give it a good half hour or hour at full blast and measure it to see what is possible.
-Adam