Why does it have to be written? It sounds like since you were writing it down on pen and paper you had todo lots of transposing already.
Why not invest in an mp3 recorder and use it to keep an audio journal of your vacation.
Then when you come home you can just sit down and listen to the entries and use them to write your story.
Firstly, mp3 recorders and the memory they use are cheap. Secondly, it's alot smaller and lighter than a pen / notebook. Thirdly, if your've near the right facilites you could even upload your log entries to a server just in case you use lose the thing.
You could even setup a webpage so your friends and family to co surf to your site and listen to your log entries.
As an American, everytime that man gets on televison and opens his mouth, I just shake my head in disbelief. One would think, that after 3.5 years as president he could have gained some public speaking skills and/or a basic grasp of the English language. <p> What really frightens me is when I look at GWB, I have to ask myself, "Of all the great people we have in this country, the best we could do is this???" <p> I look at Kerry and Bush and I throw my hands up in disgust. They're both a couple of idiots and voting for either of them is like spitting on George Washingtons grave. <p> "Beware foreign entanglement" - George Washington
This looks like a lot of fun but here are the problems I see with it.
1. I'm pretty sure a turbo charger isn't designed to tolerate the heat we're talking about.
2. With #1 in mind, Do you really want something spinning at 100k RPM's that's not designed to handle that heatload...
I'm just having visions of this thing getting up to speed, a fin blade heating up and deforming, thus causing the whole turbo shaft to come apart in rapid succession. Then watching the person standing next to the thing getting turned into a 160lb of hamburger...
Needless to say, if I were going to build one of these things. 1. I'd test it out in a field away from friends / family, property, etc. 2. Then I'd situate myself close enough to see what's going on, but not close enough to be killed when the turbine comes apart. 3. I'd then setup some watermellons in strategic locations and some quasi disposible web cams to catch all the action. 4. Then I'd open the thing to full throttle and do some destructive testing;-)
/topic NYT needs to hire some people who actually know about this whole "Internet" Thing./me thinks that they are a bunch of fucktards./kickban NYT * NYT has been kick banned from [*.*.*.*] *
If they have half a brain, I would think they'd make the can weigh exactly the same as a full can of coke.
Think about how light phones are these days. Now take off all the plastic and do away with the long endurance battery, etc. If anything they probably had to add ballast to the can to make it the proper weight.
I think they should just start equiping them with ejection seats... If the crash is bad enough that the car starts to crumple, pyrotechnic bolts would cut the roof on the car and a charge would eject the occupents. Obviously a tip sensor would ensure you didn't get ejected into the pavement if the car is upside down.
Then a special sensor would calcuate the height of the other vehicle. If it looks like it might be an SUV, another charge fires the battery pack out the front of the vehicle.
One of my coworkers started out as a computer "operator"
He was telling me that it was an exciting day when they upgraded their IBM to 128k of memory. The memory cabinet was a 4'x4'x8' box and just sucked up tons of power.
He said the exciting thing was that they could run 4 jobs as once on the thing.
Is the one time pain of deploying an automated patching system greater or less than the 3 or 4 times a year that even if your networkd doesn't come to a grinding halt, you've got to spend 4 hours going cube to cube and deploying patches.
Our solution was to deploy a centeralized controlled distributed firewall system inside our internal network. The best defense is a good offense.
This allows us to from C&C (command and control) to proactively block ports and sample traffic from any machine on any subnet.
Hense, even if sasser were to come in from some laptop and that person plugged their laptop into our general purpose subnet, 99 percent of the machines on all the subnet have the offending incoming ports blocked and as soon as it sees traffic for that port it'll send me a report.
Also, this combined with an agent that lets us push out patches and auto updating virus software allows us to stay ahead of the curve.
If after all the bullshit that companies went through with Blaster, they didn't sit down, get a team of smart IT people together and implement solutions to stop worms, then they don't deserve customers business.
Darwanism at work. Those who don't grow immune to the poison, die from it.
We have the same problem. Stuck on one of worst releases of RH ever...I like 7.3 and I like 9, but 8 was always a big screwup. Mainsoft needs to get off their asses and start upporting their stuff to newer releases, or patching their existing release so it'll run on new kernels.
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they should have named it "from the Oh a big story...oh wait, just a misprint" department.
I've got 12 Terabytes of disk space and it's very nifty.
Granted it cost more than a very large house in the hamptons, but corporations are good for stuff like that...
Why does it have to be written? It sounds like since you were writing it down on pen and paper you had todo lots of transposing already.
Why not invest in an mp3 recorder and use it to keep an audio journal of your vacation.
Then when you come home you can just sit down and listen to the entries and use them to write your story.
Firstly, mp3 recorders and the memory they use are cheap.
Secondly, it's alot smaller and lighter than a pen / notebook.
Thirdly, if your've near the right facilites you could even upload your log entries to a server just in case you use lose the thing.
You could even setup a webpage so your friends and family to co surf to your site and listen to your log entries.
What's even more impressive is that three benches over, some other guys reading your email too!
Hmm, I'd never even heard of that? Does this radar system have a specific name?
Actually, when I first bought a PS2, all I had was PS1 games and it worked perfectly for playing them.
Now, if Sony has a clue they'll retroport the best of their PS1 and PS2 games to the PSP.
Ratchet & Clank on the PSP would be enough for me to buy the system out right.
As an American, everytime that man gets on televison and opens his mouth, I just shake my head in disbelief. One would think, that after 3.5 years as president he could have gained some public speaking skills and/or a basic grasp of the English language.
<p>
What really frightens me is when I look at GWB, I have to ask myself, "Of all the great people we have in this country, the best we could do is this???"
<p>
I look at Kerry and Bush and I throw my hands up in disgust. They're both a couple of idiots and voting for either of them is like spitting on George Washingtons grave.
<p>
"Beware foreign entanglement" - George Washington
What we need is to establish permanent Mars and Moon colonies.
As long as we are a species that exists on one planet only, we are a species that is one errant asteroid or comet away from extinction.
I know this sounds ass backwards, but we need to get colonies setup first, the science can come during and afterwards.
This looks like a lot of fun but here are the problems I see with it.
;-)
1. I'm pretty sure a turbo charger isn't designed to tolerate the heat we're talking about.
2. With #1 in mind, Do you really want something spinning at 100k RPM's that's not designed to handle that heatload...
I'm just having visions of this thing getting up to speed, a fin blade heating up and deforming, thus causing the whole turbo shaft to come apart in rapid succession. Then watching the person standing next to the thing getting turned into a 160lb of hamburger...
Needless to say, if I were going to build one of these things.
1. I'd test it out in a field away from friends / family, property, etc.
2. Then I'd situate myself close enough to see what's going on, but not close enough to be killed when the turbine comes apart.
3. I'd then setup some watermellons in strategic locations and some quasi disposible web cams to catch all the action.
4. Then I'd open the thing to full throttle and do some destructive testing
Checkout an anime series called "Cowboy Bebop".
Great story, lots of action...
That would definitely work!
/topic NYT needs to hire some people who actually know about this whole "Internet" Thing. /me thinks that they are a bunch of fucktards. /kickban NYT
* NYT has been kick banned from [*.*.*.*] *
If they have half a brain, I would think they'd make the can weigh exactly the same as a full can of coke.
Think about how light phones are these days. Now take off all the plastic and do away with the long endurance battery, etc. If anything they probably had to add ballast to the can to make it the proper weight.
I'm suprised that they didn't just install the plug ins for flash and java...
I think they should just start equiping them with ejection seats... If the crash is bad enough that the car starts to crumple, pyrotechnic bolts would cut the roof on the car and a charge would eject the occupents. Obviously a tip sensor would ensure you didn't get ejected into the pavement if the car is upside down.
Then a special sensor would calcuate the height of the other vehicle. If it looks like it might be an SUV, another charge fires the battery pack out the front of the vehicle.
I'll keep that in mind the next time I go to shut down a windows machine and I click on the "Start" button todo so.
Though one of my peeves is the dumb windows gui for the file types gui.
Considering the importance that file extensions have in windows, doesn't it make sense that this should be its own object in the control panel?
One of my coworkers started out as a computer "operator"
He was telling me that it was an exciting day when they upgraded their IBM to 128k of memory. The memory cabinet was a 4'x4'x8' box and just sucked up tons of power.
He said the exciting thing was that they could run 4 jobs as once on the thing.
I suppose they are... let me clarify...
Each PC has it's own piece of firewall software running on it.
All those individual firewalls feed their info into a central console.
That console gives an overview of the activity and does some trend analysis.
So, it's a centerally managed distributed system.
I know it's a pain, but the question is.
Is the one time pain of deploying an automated patching system greater or less than the 3 or 4 times a year that even if your networkd doesn't come to a grinding halt, you've got to spend 4 hours going cube to cube and deploying patches.
Our solution was to deploy a centeralized controlled distributed firewall system inside our internal network. The best defense is a good offense.
This allows us to from C&C (command and control) to proactively block ports and sample traffic from any machine on any subnet.
Hense, even if sasser were to come in from some laptop and that person plugged their laptop into our general purpose subnet, 99 percent of the machines on all the subnet have the offending incoming ports blocked and as soon as it sees traffic for that port it'll send me a report.
Also, this combined with an agent that lets us push out patches and auto updating virus software allows us to stay ahead of the curve.
Oh they're interested in the desktop, just not in giving it away freely...
Which is fine, they've got to have that critical second step...
1. Create linux distriubtion
2. Charge money for distribution and services
3. Profit!
More like capitalism punishment.
If after all the bullshit that companies went through with Blaster, they didn't sit down, get a team of smart IT people together and implement solutions to stop worms, then they don't deserve customers business.
Darwanism at work. Those who don't grow immune to the poison, die from it.
We have the same problem. Stuck on one of worst releases of RH ever...I like 7.3 and I like 9, but 8 was always a big screwup. Mainsoft needs to get off their asses and start upporting their stuff to newer releases, or patching their existing release so it'll run on new kernels.
Stupid mvfs!
You think that's bad, I spent 2 months building a robot and then 2 months training it to be my Ad-Clicking replacement!
There is nothing a PS2 and a copy of vice city can't cure -- PA
Maybe we'll get lucky and these systems will find people who are using the internet cafe's to spam the hell out of the world.
I hope that particular "unhealthy internet" usage results in the standard "cranial ventilation" punishment...
What percentage of water are Klingons?
Opps! I meant to write "decisions".
They'll be neither creating a law, nor will it be a law that's created through the actions of a judge...