The fire marshall came in and said "you can't have those low-voltage wires run through that conduit, that conduit is designed for high voltage wiring."
I think the either the fire marshall was on crack, or.. well.. he was on crack.
I'm an electrician, and alot of the specifications I follow doing work for our larger financial customers involves running almost all datacomms wiring in 2"/3"/4" pipe. The only thing we have to watch out for when we do the work is to make sure that we don't overfill the pipe. I don't know the numbers to pipe-fill with cat5/6 (our data group forwards the engineers specs to us), but I know that the pipe I've put up for data cabling is the exact same pipe I've put up for high-voltage wiring.
Where I live, there are 2 food banks: one is staffed by volunteers, with a part-time (4hx5d/wk) co-ordinator. They will accept food happily, but have volume discounts with local retailers and wholesalers for cash donations. The cash helps tho, because they still have rent to pay, and lights to keep on.
Then, there's a food "bank", where the execuitve director and manager are husband and wife, and between them get $120,000/yr salary. If you try to donate food to them, they freak out, but if there's a nickle of charity money to be had, they will literally knock you down to get it (they knocked a fireman over one time who was involved in a fundraising effort for the other food-bank, because he wouldn't give up 1/2 the money).
True, with runas you can do *some* administration and installs, but a lot of your efforts will bite the dust. At least, that is my experience. One example for you... Login to W2K as user, and start cmd as Administrator through runas. Now try to run any program from that cmd. Tough luck - none of what you run from there will work as if you are an administrator! Is it retarded or what? Now have you ever tried running IE or Explorer with runas? They won't run. But IE is needed to run Windows Update...
Just make a shortcut to IE, then right-click on it, and choose `Run as'. I'm doing it to update this workstation right now.
will I even be able to install an aftermarket radio?
Hmm. depends. Some cars you can't now -- you have to keep your existing radio, or the car's computer will screw up. Like my Oldsmobile. Apparently there's some way of doing it that involves a re-location kit to mount it in the trunk, but that exceeds my attention span.
Telus doesn't accept cash in BC. Someone actually _sued_ them based on the whole "legal-tender-must-accept" basis, and was awarded $1.50 in damages (the cost of paying the bill at a bank).
I also remember someone going through AirCare here (emissions testing) who tried to pay with a bag of pennies, and the RCMP ended up being called, and pointed out that while they did have to accept Canadian tender, that $24.oo in loose pennies was pushing his luck. IIRC, AirCare decided to accept them if they were rolled (apparently co-incidentally timed to the arrival of a news camera crew), so the guy and a couple clerks rolled them all.
The One and the Cooper are the same care with different firmware in the chips.
Sure, but I think the reference was more to some of the claims of more torque and horsepower by changing the timing and air fuel mixture, as well as the transmission shift points, etc.
but again, if I can just h4x0r a few variables, which isn't a factory-available option, to make it so much better, if that's such a great idea, why didn't GM do it and charge me more for it, instead of getting aftermarket stuff.
I saw on TV a few weeks ago where a car shop somewhere installs MOD chips that turns kittens into tigers. The chips apparently modify the fuel injection system, pollution control, timing, etc.
Yup, and you look in any car or truck magazine and you'll see them. There's an interesting analogy there too: If the manufacturer thought that the features that come on replacement chips were so hot shit, _they_ would have included them on the stock chips...
That's what I say everytime someone asks if I'm going to chip my car.
I suppose I should have said "Regional" rather than commuter. They have ground crews, ticket ppl, etc, that aren't the pilot, and these flights aren't really what you'd consider local driving.
Also, it's more than a 3h drive. I did it last weekend, and it took 8.5h. it's ~500 miles.
hmmm... Well, I was flying a few months ago on a commuter airline, in a small (14 passenger) twin prop, and we'd been delayed at takeoff due to snow and icing. When we were almost there, I asked the Captains when we would be landing, as my car was in the shop, and I was going to be fscked if we were too much more delayed, as I needed to call the dealer and tell them I was running behind. The Captain looked at me, asked if I was carrying a cell-phone as carry-on, and told me to feel free to use it if I wanted to, and that it was ok with him.
When I used to be the DSL divsion manager for a fairly large local ISP, I found some interesting things out about our "high-quality ADSL".
The amound we paid to "equally" access the ILEC's DSLAM was the same as ILEC.net paid for it, but: - We had to funnel our traffic back out through ILEC's wholesale broadband division, at rates even higher than we paid for our other ILEC lines that serviced our dial, ISDN, Colo, and leased line customers. - We usually had to wait 2 weeks to get a port set up for our customers, but if they called ILEC.net, they could have it up and running the next day. - We had alot of trouble with all of the lines. Mine worked great, as they knew it was mine (I know - I pushed the provision date up). They knew the general manager's line for the same reason, but alot of our others never worked right, and they told us it was the building or the installers, but if the customer disconnected from us, and called ILEC.net, it worked great (I have tested this myself).
I know the ILECs aren't up to playing fair, as they're only in it for the money, but still...
What makes us more advanced then cave men is language. Try explaining how to do something by pointing and grunting and you will see what I mean. For somethings like moving a rock from one place to another that might be sufficient and probably even easier but telling someone how to build a cart out of 2 wheels would be imposible with out language.
Like the accounting server at my 2nd-last job. It logged in automatically as LocalAdmin for PCAnywhere, but never locked the console. Ever. The all-knowing Accpac server. *shrugs and shudders*
I agree that the apartment building analogy is a better one, and I found it odd that in 14 years, I'd only ever seen it used twice by people other than myself (including you).
I can't quote it for you by verse, but it was alot to do with timesharing (IE: "everyone complains about slow service and exorbitant rents" is an exact quote), but he mentions that each tenant shouldn't be able to infringe on any of the others, and how one person could be doing one thing in thier space (writing email), and another in thiers (downloading recipies).
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The fire marshall came in and said "you can't have those low-voltage wires run through that conduit, that conduit is designed for high voltage wiring."
I think the either the fire marshall was on crack, or.. well.. he was on crack.
I'm an electrician, and alot of the specifications I follow doing work for our larger financial customers involves running almost all datacomms wiring in 2"/3"/4" pipe. The only thing we have to watch out for when we do the work is to make sure that we don't overfill the pipe. I don't know the numbers to pipe-fill with cat5/6 (our data group forwards the engineers specs to us), but I know that the pipe I've put up for data cabling is the exact same pipe I've put up for high-voltage wiring.
YMMV.
Can he come??!?
Probably just the scum of the earth.
;)
Where I live, there are 2 food banks: one is staffed by volunteers, with a part-time (4hx5d/wk) co-ordinator. They will accept food happily, but have volume discounts with local retailers and wholesalers for cash donations. The cash helps tho, because they still have rent to pay, and lights to keep on.
Then, there's a food "bank", where the execuitve director and manager are husband and wife, and between them get $120,000/yr salary. If you try to donate food to them, they freak out, but if there's a nickle of charity money to be had, they will literally knock you down to get it (they knocked a fireman over one time who was involved in a fundraising effort for the other food-bank, because he wouldn't give up 1/2 the money).
Choose your favorite.
ITYM "They make crappy TV's and related electronics (VCR's, stereos, DVD players, etc.)."
HTH,
-- Moe
True, with runas you can do *some* administration and installs, but a lot of your efforts will bite the dust. At least, that is my experience. One example for you... Login to W2K as user, and start cmd as Administrator through runas. Now try to run any program from that cmd. Tough luck - none of what you run from there will work as if you are an administrator! Is it retarded or what? Now have you ever tried running IE or Explorer with runas? They won't run. But IE is needed to run Windows Update...
Just make a shortcut to IE, then right-click on it, and choose `Run as'. I'm doing it to update this workstation right now.
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I want one of these. Wait till they bring it out in an SUV! I'll show the world!!
will I even be able to install an aftermarket radio?
Hmm. depends. Some cars you can't now -- you have to keep your existing radio, or the car's computer will screw up. Like my Oldsmobile. Apparently there's some way of doing it that involves a re-location kit to mount it in the trunk, but that exceeds my attention span.
Minor point, but afaik marine and coast guard channels are all around 155-165MHz.
Sure, but they still use HF for long distance communications, which can be critical on the high seas... Satellite phones aren't everything.
-- R
as long as it still has that new greenback smell, who cares :)
since the plan from the beginning was to take the oil from Saddam and turn it over to the Iraqis.
"Like dayiick chayyneey, of halaliburtion" -- Dennis Miller
Uhhh... Nope.
Telus doesn't accept cash in BC. Someone actually _sued_ them based on the whole "legal-tender-must-accept" basis, and was awarded $1.50 in damages (the cost of paying the bill at a bank).
I also remember someone going through AirCare here (emissions testing) who tried to pay with a bag of pennies, and the RCMP ended up being called, and pointed out that while they did have to accept Canadian tender, that $24.oo in loose pennies was pushing his luck. IIRC, AirCare decided to accept them if they were rolled (apparently co-incidentally timed to the arrival of a news camera crew), so the guy and a couple clerks rolled them all.
I put subgenius. Wonder how many said that?
-- R
The One and the Cooper are the same care with different firmware in the chips.
Sure, but I think the reference was more to some of the claims of more torque and horsepower by changing the timing and air fuel mixture, as well as the transmission shift points, etc.
but again, if I can just h4x0r a few variables, which isn't a factory-available option, to make it so much better, if that's such a great idea, why didn't GM do it and charge me more for it, instead of getting aftermarket stuff.
-- Ray
I saw on TV a few weeks ago where a car shop somewhere installs MOD chips that turns kittens into tigers.
The chips apparently modify the fuel injection system, pollution control, timing, etc.
Yup, and you look in any car or truck magazine and you'll see them. There's an interesting analogy there too: If the manufacturer thought that the features that come on replacement chips were so hot shit, _they_ would have included them on the stock chips...
That's what I say everytime someone asks if I'm going to chip my car.
-- Ray
I suppose I should have said "Regional" rather than commuter. They have ground crews, ticket ppl, etc, that aren't the pilot, and these flights aren't really what you'd consider local driving.
Also, it's more than a 3h drive. I did it last weekend, and it took 8.5h. it's ~500 miles.
As a result, all FM transmissions exceeding 1 watt at frequencies higher than 100 MHZ...
.6 watts... (not that you'd know it... it can't always reach the tower 4 blocks away).
Well, I know that my iDEN phone is >100mhz, otoh, it's rated at
-- Ray
hmmm... Well, I was flying a few months ago on a commuter airline, in a small (14 passenger) twin prop, and we'd been delayed at takeoff due to snow and icing.
When we were almost there, I asked the Captains when we would be landing, as my car was in the shop, and I was going to be fscked if we were too much more delayed, as I needed to call the dealer and tell them I was running behind.
The Captain looked at me, asked if I was carrying a cell-phone as carry-on, and told me to feel free to use it if I wanted to, and that it was ok with him.
*shrugs*
-- Ray
Alas, reason is out of style.
:(
Well, it is CommonSense(tm).
Unfortunately, common sense seems to be more common than sense...
--R
Yeah, if you can get your hands on a nonexistent EMP weapon .
No wonder they canceled Dark Angel!
Damn Military Reps....
-- R
Considering the likelyhood of being able to find a working net connection (or whatever) in the average war zone...
;)
War zones ain't nothing! Try and get one in the outer suburbs!
--R
When I used to be the DSL divsion manager for a fairly large local ISP, I found some interesting things out about our "high-quality ADSL".
The amound we paid to "equally" access the ILEC's DSLAM was the same as ILEC.net paid for it, but:
- We had to funnel our traffic back out through ILEC's wholesale broadband division, at rates even higher than we paid for our other ILEC lines that serviced our dial, ISDN, Colo, and leased line customers.
- We usually had to wait 2 weeks to get a port set up for our customers, but if they called ILEC.net, they could have it up and running the next day.
- We had alot of trouble with all of the lines. Mine worked great, as they knew it was mine (I know - I pushed the provision date up). They knew the general manager's line for the same reason, but alot of our others never worked right, and they told us it was the building or the installers, but if the customer disconnected from us, and called ILEC.net, it worked great (I have tested this myself).
I know the ILECs aren't up to playing fair, as they're only in it for the money, but still...
-- R
Baby Bells PROMOTE Broadband Stagnation.
Guess they're both true, having a background in DSL Operations for a local ISP.
*shrugs*
-- R
What makes us more advanced then cave men is language. Try explaining how to do something by pointing and grunting and you will see what I mean. For somethings like moving a rock from one place to another that might be sufficient and probably even easier but telling someone how to build a cart out of 2 wheels would be imposible with out language.
You've obviously never managed a McDonalds.
--R
True.
Like the accounting server at my 2nd-last job.
It logged in automatically as LocalAdmin for PCAnywhere, but never locked the console. Ever.
The all-knowing Accpac server.
*shrugs and shudders*
-- R
I wasn't trying to torpedo you :)
I agree that the apartment building analogy is a better one, and I found it odd that in 14 years,
I'd only ever seen it used twice by people other than myself (including you).
I can't quote it for you by verse, but it was alot to do with timesharing (IE: "everyone complains about slow service and exorbitant rents" is an exact quote), but he mentions that each tenant shouldn't be able to infringe on any of the others, and how one person could be doing one thing in thier space (writing email), and another in thiers (downloading recipies).
-- R