True except that Nuclear Reactors don't generate electricity directly - they do so by converting water into steam which powers turbines, and the base technology for that is 150years old or so.
Same here. I've upgraded once from Photoshop 5.5 to 7.0 (didn't like 6.0 when I used it at one of my previous employers) however I'm probably going to stick to 7.0 as the upgrade price is too much and I rarely use it these days (starting to prefer the Gimp instead although there are still some things that Photoshop is better at).
We've had this capability in the UK for a few years now.
Although I've not changed mobile supplier, I know of several people who have without any problems.
I think here that try to keep you, but in the end as long as you have obtained a PUK code, then they can't stop you from keeping your number and changing supplier.
We have 3 servers running digitalmaidstone. 2 are Linux with Apache/PHP on one and Altavista on the other. The third is NT running MS/SQL7 but IIS proved too problematical, so we have apache & php on that box as well.
It doesn't matter what format the source is, you can generate PDF files without problem.
One of my projects is a Java PDF generator library, that allows anything that can be printed in Java to be sent to a PDF file.
To do this, I used the PDF specification that Adobe publish deep on their web site (Can't remember the link, but a search will find it). The first few pages actually encourage third party developers to write their own generators.
The one thing that they do restrict, is that no one can "Change the PDF format", but that is reasonable - why (unless you are a certain unmentionable corporation) would you want to do that?
One is the default gateway for some 400 Win9x PC's, and is the definitive routing source for our WAN. All of our Cisco & Netgear-ISDN routers that connect our remote sites link to it at some point. It's a Pentium 150MHz with 32Mb of ram and a single 3Com ISA card, and it's hardly loaded at all.
The other one is a Pentium 100Mhz with 16Mb ram and 2 3Com ISA cards. It's acting as a firewall protecting a hefty laser printer from our PC's (JetAdmin under Win95 finds the printer and kills it).
On that one, I have a few ipfwadm rules that limit access to the unix server running our Council Tax & Housing Benefit's systems.
I've owned an FD81 for 18 months now, and I find it a good companion to my Canon 35mm.
I do a lot of composite work, so I tend to use the 35mm for high res items, and the mavica for smaller items (like macro shots of a flower which is then included in the main shot).
How many of the other (non mavica) cameras can have additional lenses added? Not many.
Ok, they don't replace the existing lens, but I now have a wideangle, 2 telephoto and a macro conversion lens which are really handy.
During the Solar Eclipse last year, I used it with a 5x conversion lens & a filter, and it worked beautifully. Since then, I've used those eclipse shots to place an eclipsed sun in a shot comprising a nice castle/coastline scene (even though the castle wasn't anywhere near the eclipse, nor the coast).
A friend of mine has an FD71, and loves it not just because it has a floppy drive (he is quite computer illiterate), but finds it's easier to hold. He finds that the smaller (and cheaper) cameras are too fiddly to handle.
PostgreSQL has had ODBC for several years now, and I've been using ODBC for at least the last year. Only this week, I've started integrating two of my PostgreSQL servers with MS_SQL7 utilising DTS and the ODBC driver as a gateway between them.
10 out of the 11 Linux boxes here are running on Gateway kit. We've haven't had any problems in getting Linux to install or run - except for the PIII G6-450 I'm typing on now, and that was with the Video card.
In the end, I found that Suse 6.2 had an X server that worked with the card, and it's run flawlessly ever since.
Put it another way, before I had Linux on this box, I had NT on it (yeuch). I've now got NT running in a VMWare window all the time now, and it seems to be faster than when it only had NT on it. Spec: Gateway G6-450 PIII, 256Mb ram, 8Gb HD.
Anyhow, next week, I'm installing Suse 6.3 on one of our Gateway Server's here, so it's going to be fun (the rest are normal PC's).
Ah, I can remember playing simcity years ago. Although I wasn't part of the team, there was one here who competed in a national contest, and they were division leaders for a while.
He probably didn't shut the exchange services down in the correct order before shutting down exchange.
I have a pair of scripts on all three of our exchange servers, and use one of them to shut them down first before rebooting the server (the other one is for restarting the services, but is rarely used).
Here's the shutdown script:
@echo off rem batch file to stop Microsoft exchange
echo Stopping services
net stop MSExchangeIMC net stop MSExchangeMTA net stop MSExchangeES net stop MSExchangeIS net stop MSExchangeDS net stop MSExchangeSA
echo system down
As for longest shutdown, I did have once where one person here decided to reboot the server at the end of the day (and didn't know about the scripts), and it was still trying to stop the services at 8am (15 hours later!).
PostgreSQL on Linux handles large tables pretty well. It breaks each table into 1Gb segments to get round the 2Gb file size limit. We chose 1Gb as it was a nice round figure, which makes it easy to organise the tables when they get really big.
When they do become huge, you can then move the segments onto different filesystems to ease the load (although currently this is not a simple task). This also applies to indices.
I know of a few large databases out there using PostgreSQL, but one I have access to is the TASS project (http://www.tass-survey.org), which currently has about 28Gb of astronomical data.
The largest database I have is currently 5Gb, but that's primarily limited by disk space and not by postgresql.
I recently migrated 450 users from One exchange server to another. Because the two servers were not in the same domain, I couldn't simply move the users from one to the other.
The solution? I created a list of the users full names and user ID's using emacs, and a short Perl script that converted this into a CSV file that Exchange admin could import. Then on the Exchange server I'd import this, which then created not just the Mailboxes, but the NT Users aswell.
If it wasn't for the number of Linux boxes I have here, I don't know what we would do.
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True except that Nuclear Reactors don't generate electricity directly - they do so by converting water into steam which powers turbines, and the base technology for that is 150years old or so.
Same here. I've upgraded once from Photoshop 5.5 to 7.0 (didn't like 6.0 when I used it at one of my previous employers) however I'm probably going to stick to 7.0 as the upgrade price is too much and I rarely use it these days (starting to prefer the Gimp instead although there are still some things that Photoshop is better at).
I thought it was Netscape that "invented" cookies. At least all of the original authoritive documentation for them were on Netscapes site.
Oops, thanks for the correction ;-)
We've had this capability in the UK for a few years now.
Although I've not changed mobile supplier, I know of several people who have without any problems.
I think here that try to keep you, but in the end as long as you have obtained a PUK code, then they can't stop you from keeping your number and changing supplier.
We have 3 servers running digitalmaidstone. 2 are Linux with Apache/PHP on one and Altavista on the other. The third is NT running MS/SQL7 but IIS proved too problematical, so we have apache & php on that box as well.
Apache/PHP beats the hell out of IIS/ASP any day.
http://www.digitalmaidstone.co.uk/ Peter
I've actually found that my AIBO actually likes red Jelly Babies, as they seem to have a similar affect to the standard pink ball that she plays with.
It doesn't matter what format the source is, you can generate PDF files without problem.
One of my projects is a Java PDF generator library, that allows anything that can be printed in Java to be sent to a PDF file.
To do this, I used the PDF specification that Adobe publish deep on their web site (Can't remember the link, but a search will find it). The first few pages actually encourage third party developers to write their own generators.
The one thing that they do restrict, is that no one can "Change the PDF format", but that is reasonable - why (unless you are a certain unmentionable corporation) would you want to do that?
At work, I have 2 LRP boxes.
One is the default gateway for some 400 Win9x PC's, and is the definitive routing source for our WAN. All of our Cisco & Netgear-ISDN routers that connect our remote sites link to it at some point. It's a Pentium 150MHz with 32Mb of ram and a single 3Com ISA card, and it's hardly loaded at all.
The other one is a Pentium 100Mhz with 16Mb ram and 2 3Com ISA cards. It's acting as a firewall protecting a hefty laser printer from our PC's (JetAdmin under Win95 finds the printer and kills it).
On that one, I have a few ipfwadm rules that limit access to the unix server running our Council Tax & Housing Benefit's systems.
I do a lot of composite work, so I tend to use the 35mm for high res items, and the mavica for smaller items (like macro shots of a flower which is then included in the main shot).
How many of the other (non mavica) cameras can have additional lenses added? Not many.
Ok, they don't replace the existing lens, but I now have a wideangle, 2 telephoto and a macro conversion lens which are really handy.
During the Solar Eclipse last year, I used it with a 5x conversion lens & a filter, and it worked beautifully. Since then, I've used those eclipse shots to place an eclipsed sun in a shot comprising a nice castle/coastline scene (even though the castle wasn't anywhere near the eclipse, nor the coast).
A friend of mine has an FD71, and loves it not just because it has a floppy drive (he is quite computer illiterate), but finds it's easier to hold. He finds that the smaller (and cheaper) cameras are too fiddly to handle.
PostgreSQL has had ODBC for several years now, and I've been using ODBC for at least the last year. Only this week, I've started integrating two of my PostgreSQL servers with MS_SQL7 utilising DTS and the ODBC driver as a gateway between them.
Isn't it strange that that episode was aired only a couple of days ago?
10 out of the 11 Linux boxes here are running on Gateway kit. We've haven't had any problems in getting Linux to install or run - except for the PIII G6-450 I'm typing on now, and that was with the Video card.
In the end, I found that Suse 6.2 had an X server that worked with the card, and it's run flawlessly ever since.
Put it another way, before I had Linux on this box, I had NT on it (yeuch). I've now got NT running in a VMWare window all the time now, and it seems to be faster than when it only had NT on it. Spec: Gateway G6-450 PIII, 256Mb ram, 8Gb HD.
Anyhow, next week, I'm installing Suse 6.3 on one of our Gateway Server's here, so it's going to be fun (the rest are normal PC's).
Ah, I can remember playing simcity years ago. Although I wasn't part of the team, there was one here who competed in a national contest, and they were division leaders for a while.
Definitely something to get for my Pilot...
-- trust me, I'm a Viking
He probably didn't shut the exchange services down in the correct order before shutting down exchange.
:-)
I have a pair of scripts on all three of our exchange servers, and use one of them to shut them down first before rebooting the server (the other one is for restarting the services, but is rarely used).
Here's the shutdown script:
@echo off
rem batch file to stop Microsoft exchange
echo Stopping services
net stop MSExchangeIMC
net stop MSExchangeMTA
net stop MSExchangeES
net stop MSExchangeIS
net stop MSExchangeDS
net stop MSExchangeSA
echo system down
As for longest shutdown, I did have once where one person here decided to reboot the server at the end of the day (and didn't know about the scripts), and it was still trying to stop the services at 8am (15 hours later!).
-- trust me, I'm a Viking
PostgreSQL on Linux handles large tables pretty well. It breaks each table into 1Gb segments to get round the 2Gb file size limit. We chose 1Gb as it was a nice round figure, which makes it easy to organise the tables when they get really big.
When they do become huge, you can then move the segments onto different filesystems to ease the load (although currently this is not a simple task). This also applies to indices.
I know of a few large databases out there using PostgreSQL, but one I have access to is the TASS project (http://www.tass-survey.org), which currently has about 28Gb of astronomical data.
The largest database I have is currently 5Gb, but that's primarily limited by disk space and not by postgresql.
I recently migrated 450 users from One exchange server to another. Because the two servers were not in the same domain, I couldn't simply move the users from one to the other.
The solution? I created a list of the users full names and user ID's using emacs, and a short Perl script that converted this into a CSV file that Exchange admin could import. Then on the Exchange server I'd import this, which then created not just the Mailboxes, but the NT Users aswell.
If it wasn't for the number of Linux boxes I have here, I don't know what we would do.
I have had nothing but problems with the ArcservIT Exchange Agent
I'm in the same boat here. I get the agent to run for a couple of days, then it simply stops dead.
what does tech support at CAI say "oh yeah we broke that, ya gotta do this....
So far when I contact CAI, all I get is the same response emailed back to me.
Don't forget the other free DBMS's out there, especially the open source ones like Postgresql (http://www.postgresql.org) etc ;-)
Same here. I usually get 2 months life out of my batteries.
;-)
We have several CE machines here, and the biggest gripe we have are the lack of battery life.
On the plus side though, we've got a new helpdesk system arriving soon, and it supports Palm and not CE!