The general rule of thumb is 10" of snow = 1" of rain. It can vary widely from this, as powder is far different than heavy wet snow, but you can use it for a general estimate.
Our other domes in the world suggest this is possible. However, as you've pointed...around....balancing the forces on this would be tough. In VT (born and raised there) It's not unheard of to have a 40 degree shift in temperature over 24 hrs. 20-30 degrees F is very common. That alone would put significant strain on a structure buoyed by warm air. The buoyant force on a parcel of air is proportional to the difference in temperature with its surroundings. [(T-T')/T', in K] A quick, back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that a change in buoyant force of 8% wouldn't be uncommon within 24 hrs. That's a huge change for a structure to withstand.
As best I can tell, it started around 2000. When I graduated in the mid 90s, we all had shit cars. When I started teaching at a poor, rural HS (20 miles down the road!) in 2004, kids had all sorts of ridiculous cars. Vintage 60s cars, totally refurbished. Cadillacs, Audis, jacked up trucks with dual smokestack exhausts, pink mustang, etc. The "normal" kids all had newer hondas and toyotas. A good chunk of the student body had a better car than I did.
Apparently, in the last generation, parents lost all common sense. I have no clue how you come to the idea that buying your kid an expensive car is a good investment. Based on what the kids did to those vehicles, it's clear I'm the sane one here. My favorite was the kid who went mudding in his jacked up truck, with the badass chrome 350 engine block in it. He plowed through a river, managed to suck in a bunch of water through the air intake, and totally blew his engine. It was brutal, but I laughed my ass off when he told me. Apparently his parents would only spring for a normal engine to fix it.
You are wrong about the pin-length being such that you can't make contact when it's partially plugged in. I'm (still) living proof that you can. (One issue is that pin length isn't always standardized appliance to appliance.) I once was working a lab with a multi-outlet strip, and I tried to unplug it with latex gloves on. The glove caused me to slip while unplugging it, and I managed to get it partially out. Reached while looking down at chemicals to make sure I didn't spill anything, and touched the hot pin.
Really, our plugs are good for what they're designed to do:
a) Be unplugged and plugged in repeatedly. They need to be simple, rugged, and have no moving parts for this. b) Be safe enough. Not totally safe, but safe enough that there's an issue less than 1/10,000 times they are used.
From those standpoints, most plugs in the world qualify. Because if they didn't they'd have been tossed out already. While I'd love to see a single design world-wide, we as humans are so patriotic about everything to do with our personal countries it's unlikely to ever happen.
Or a wipe and a clean install. Really, if your update broke a couple times, it's quite possible you have lots of shit semi-broken now.
For most of history, an OS upgrade was a wipe and a reinstall. Windows almost always requires this, in my experience. It's only been in the last few years that Apple and to some extent Linux has been able to do true upgrades. Even now, they don't always work really well.
If you're seeing that many issues, do a clean install. I keep my/home directory on a separate partition from / for that very reason. I've had the same/home and/media directories through 2 different distros, and probably 5 versions of Kubuntu. When shit really goes badly, there are three steps to try:
1) Make sure you're on the newest kernel. Kubuntu didnt' do that for me this time, and caused all sorts of issues. 2) Whack your desktop config folder. I generally move.kde to.kde.old Sometimes, your previous config settings kill the new ones. Start fresh. 3) Complete wipe and reinstall. No upgrade is perfect, as no system is "stock". Everyone adds stuff, moves stuff, etc. To make 100% sure it's an OS issue and not an upgrade issue, wipe it and reinstall.
My 866mhz EEE doesn't take that long to boot. Hit those three steps, and if you still have the issues, throw full blame at the distro or the hardware.
That's the biggest plus for me. When I bork windows, it requires a reinstall most of the time. When I bork linux, I can generally fix it. Sometimes, it's easier to reinstall, but often, as long as it boots, I can fix about anything with a few commands.
Windows requires less knowledge to run, for sure. But that also means a lot of fixes require a wipe.
I blame my 16hr grad school days for the fact that I didn't notice that grub failed to update. Once I booted to the new kernel, sound is back and working.
Thanks a bunch to you and the AC above.
Incidentally, this is why I like open source software, and why I like slashdot. We get posts with issues, and we get posts with fixes.
Ditto to problem 1 here. I have an old SB live card, onboard sound, and a USB headset. Nothing worked after the update. I was running Alsa before, and this update installed Pulse Audio. I purged that with fire, but still have some audio issues. System audio works, Flash audio doesn't, Kmix crashes and locks up all the time, and alsamixer fails with some error. If I wasn't putting in 16 hr days in grad school right now, I would probably have it straightened out. As it is, I'm living with partial sound until the weekend.
I think I need to purge all my sound and selectively reinstall. However, it's cute that purging alsa still removes kubuntu-desktop as well. That's a sweet bug that's been around for at least 2 years now. If I recall correctly, I did this same thing six months ago....
It's interesting, because I use Linux AND Windows for the same reasons. Linux, because I'm lazy. Ubuntu install takes all of 20 minutes, and I have all the shit I need to do everyday tasks. I don't need to dig up disks for drivers for all the hardware, office suite, hunt down video drivers, antivirus/spyware, unzip utility, terminal service, media player, photo editor, browser, etc. I still have to install java and flash, like on windows, but that's just as easy now with modern package managers.
I tried gaming on Linux for a long time. Lately, it's harder and harder to get a lot of games to run, and I'm lazy. I've got an XP boot for that. No AV, no nothing else. Just a handful of games. It doesn't get used for browsing, word processing, or even listening to music. All my XP boot does is play games. Why? Because I'm too lazy to get them running under Wine.
So there you have it - I have two operating systems, because I'm lazy. I'm too lazy to get games working under Linux, and I'm too lazy to get Windows set up to be secure and provide me with a useful working environment.
I was thinking the same thing - this sounds like a Gentoo minimal install. However, the summary states there's no USB ports or CD drive. Without some serious digging, I don't know that you can do a non-CD Gentoo install.
Personally, I'd find an old CD drive, hook it up, and install off a CD. It's FAR easier than trying to do some shit with floppies, or trying to boot off a serial cable or something. I'd be surprised if anyone trying to install linux on old hardware doesn't know someone with an old 4x CD drive kicking around that they could borrow for a few hours. That would be far less painful than any alternatives.
That's not the only ISO->bootable USB stick program, but I can confirm I've used it successfully to install the previous Xubuntu on my EEE. I know I've used another one or two as well, but I never bothered to bookmark or note which ones. I let google remember for me.
Or RA. I'm doing minimal amounts of research while I take my core classes. When I'm done with them, and move into research full-time, my RA will pay for my entire grad degree, including badass health benefits.
Grad work in search of a PhD makes you a minimal amount of money. BS/BA degrees leave you $20-$100k in debt. While my outstanding $17k in student loans is deferred while I go to grad school, I definitely don't make enough to put a dent in that debt. It's the undergrad degree that's the killer.
Well, there are always two sides to any review. One party will call it good research, good science. The other will call it horribly flawed, poorly cited, and misguided. Who is right? Both are.
Science is only as good as the time it was done in. Should you put the research of a 16th, 17th century scientist in a current journal, it would be ripped to shreds. But when it was done, it was good enough.
That is the real value of science. At the moment, it is good enough. It explains 70% of what we don't know. It might be wrong, it might be right, but for the time being, it's good enough. In time, it will be bad science. Almost all science is bad science, given enough time. But for now, it's good enough.
Can you always pick apart science? Of course! Because it's not perfect. It doesn't do everything, nor explain everything. But for the moment, given our current knowledge and current technology, it's good enough.
And that's good enough reason for me to believe in it.
In my experience, it does. It might not be where you want to live, or exactly what science you want, but there is plenty of science out there which will pay you to do it. It might not be a fortune, but you can get paid to do science.
Suck up a $18k a year graduate student job for 5 years, get a PhD, and then get paid $50k a year to do science in a university. It's a recession-proof, guaranteed job. Advancement is minimal, but the benefits are great, and the freedom is even better. From what I've experienced, it sure beats a corporate slave-job.
I bailed on IT after only 3 years. I'm pretty good at it, but the corporate atmosphere is horrific. It's taken awhile, but I've stumbled my way back into graduate school doing climate modeling. I get to program again, give input on terabyte raid arrays, learn how to get 256 processors clustered to do parallel processing, etc. It's fun IT. I work on a high-end mac, and ssh into borderline supercomputers to get work done. Compared to helpdesk and the corporate machine, it's heaven.
The pay is poor, graduate pay at the moment. But there are a couple dozen people in my building with PhDs who are doing this for a living. There are another six or so who are staff, with no PhD. Both are doing IT work 9-4, with an hour for lunch sort of IT work. Building rack servers, programming weather models, all sorts of intellectual, low-stress, rewarding work.
If you're corporate IT job is making you hate life, dump the corporate part, not the IT part.
I've spent a little time around a moose that had just died. It didn't smell bad at all. In fact, once a tenderloin was sizzling up with some mushrooms and onions, garlic and seasoning, it smelled pretty damn good.
Now, if you are talking about a place that smelled like a moose died in it last month, then I'm with you.
Hahahahahahah.....I was about to mod you down, but that's FUCKING PRICELESS!
You tried to install Apache....on a server...which wasn't connected to the internet......
I once tried to turn on a light which wasn't plugged in, and that didn't work either.....
Seriously, if you suck that badly at trolling, don't troll. It makes you look dumb. Stick to setting up your servers in your cave - you'll be far more successful in that endeavor.
Um, you're suggesting putting a bunch of attractive women in a small, confined space together.....do you not know how well women get along over extended time periods?
Oh, slashdot, women....right. Carry on.
For the record, I don't know if I'd rather be one of six guys or one guy with 5 other women. When you're rationing water so there is limited bathing, three are now in cycle and so are PMSing at the same time, she took the last bit of ice cream, well, you obviously don't need any more, who are you calling fat, etc, I don't know if it would be worth the sex.
I personally like the story behind Tetris. The social commentary about how you may turn yourself to fit into a group, but you can never change your true shape. And just when you find a good, solid group to fit in with, it disappears, leaving you turning in the wind again, trying to fit in somewhere else.
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The general rule of thumb is 10" of snow = 1" of rain. It can vary widely from this, as powder is far different than heavy wet snow, but you can use it for a general estimate.
Our other domes in the world suggest this is possible. However, as you've pointed...around....balancing the forces on this would be tough. In VT (born and raised there) It's not unheard of to have a 40 degree shift in temperature over 24 hrs. 20-30 degrees F is very common. That alone would put significant strain on a structure buoyed by warm air. The buoyant force on a parcel of air is proportional to the difference in temperature with its surroundings. [(T-T')/T', in K] A quick, back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that a change in buoyant force of 8% wouldn't be uncommon within 24 hrs. That's a huge change for a structure to withstand.
As best I can tell, it started around 2000. When I graduated in the mid 90s, we all had shit cars. When I started teaching at a poor, rural HS (20 miles down the road!) in 2004, kids had all sorts of ridiculous cars. Vintage 60s cars, totally refurbished. Cadillacs, Audis, jacked up trucks with dual smokestack exhausts, pink mustang, etc. The "normal" kids all had newer hondas and toyotas. A good chunk of the student body had a better car than I did.
Apparently, in the last generation, parents lost all common sense. I have no clue how you come to the idea that buying your kid an expensive car is a good investment. Based on what the kids did to those vehicles, it's clear I'm the sane one here. My favorite was the kid who went mudding in his jacked up truck, with the badass chrome 350 engine block in it. He plowed through a river, managed to suck in a bunch of water through the air intake, and totally blew his engine. It was brutal, but I laughed my ass off when he told me. Apparently his parents would only spring for a normal engine to fix it.
I'm not sure the same people are working on those two problems....But if they were, I bet all cancer treatments would involve lasers....
You are wrong about the pin-length being such that you can't make contact when it's partially plugged in. I'm (still) living proof that you can. (One issue is that pin length isn't always standardized appliance to appliance.) I once was working a lab with a multi-outlet strip, and I tried to unplug it with latex gloves on. The glove caused me to slip while unplugging it, and I managed to get it partially out. Reached while looking down at chemicals to make sure I didn't spill anything, and touched the hot pin.
Really, our plugs are good for what they're designed to do:
a) Be unplugged and plugged in repeatedly. They need to be simple, rugged, and have no moving parts for this.
b) Be safe enough. Not totally safe, but safe enough that there's an issue less than 1/10,000 times they are used.
From those standpoints, most plugs in the world qualify. Because if they didn't they'd have been tossed out already. While I'd love to see a single design world-wide, we as humans are so patriotic about everything to do with our personal countries it's unlikely to ever happen.
How many of the tech-site visitors are using iPhones? That might explain the Chrome vs Safari numbers alone.
I think you an important word in your sentence up there.
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And Gentoo users would not understand.....
apoc.famine@lugburz:~$sudo rm -rf
sudo: command not found
apoc.famine@lugburz:~$emerge sudo
Or a wipe and a clean install. Really, if your update broke a couple times, it's quite possible you have lots of shit semi-broken now.
/home directory on a separate partition from / for that very reason. I've had the same /home and /media directories through 2 different distros, and probably 5 versions of Kubuntu.
.kde to .kde.old Sometimes, your previous config settings kill the new ones. Start fresh.
For most of history, an OS upgrade was a wipe and a reinstall. Windows almost always requires this, in my experience. It's only been in the last few years that Apple and to some extent Linux has been able to do true upgrades. Even now, they don't always work really well.
If you're seeing that many issues, do a clean install. I keep my
When shit really goes badly, there are three steps to try:
1) Make sure you're on the newest kernel. Kubuntu didnt' do that for me this time, and caused all sorts of issues.
2) Whack your desktop config folder. I generally move
3) Complete wipe and reinstall. No upgrade is perfect, as no system is "stock". Everyone adds stuff, moves stuff, etc. To make 100% sure it's an OS issue and not an upgrade issue, wipe it and reinstall.
My 866mhz EEE doesn't take that long to boot. Hit those three steps, and if you still have the issues, throw full blame at the distro or the hardware.
That's the biggest plus for me. When I bork windows, it requires a reinstall most of the time. When I bork linux, I can generally fix it. Sometimes, it's easier to reinstall, but often, as long as it boots, I can fix about anything with a few commands.
Windows requires less knowledge to run, for sure. But that also means a lot of fixes require a wipe.
+2 to this post.
I blame my 16hr grad school days for the fact that I didn't notice that grub failed to update. Once I booted to the new kernel, sound is back and working.
Thanks a bunch to you and the AC above.
Incidentally, this is why I like open source software, and why I like slashdot. We get posts with issues, and we get posts with fixes.
Ditto to problem 1 here. I have an old SB live card, onboard sound, and a USB headset. Nothing worked after the update. I was running Alsa before, and this update installed Pulse Audio. I purged that with fire, but still have some audio issues. System audio works, Flash audio doesn't, Kmix crashes and locks up all the time, and alsamixer fails with some error. If I wasn't putting in 16 hr days in grad school right now, I would probably have it straightened out. As it is, I'm living with partial sound until the weekend.
I think I need to purge all my sound and selectively reinstall. However, it's cute that purging alsa still removes kubuntu-desktop as well. That's a sweet bug that's been around for at least 2 years now. If I recall correctly, I did this same thing six months ago....
there is someone who can help you
Ohhh, did he just spend 12 years in an oak barrel? Because I like him!
Perhaps, then, you ARE the expert....
It's interesting, because I use Linux AND Windows for the same reasons. Linux, because I'm lazy. Ubuntu install takes all of 20 minutes, and I have all the shit I need to do everyday tasks. I don't need to dig up disks for drivers for all the hardware, office suite, hunt down video drivers, antivirus/spyware, unzip utility, terminal service, media player, photo editor, browser, etc. I still have to install java and flash, like on windows, but that's just as easy now with modern package managers.
I tried gaming on Linux for a long time. Lately, it's harder and harder to get a lot of games to run, and I'm lazy. I've got an XP boot for that. No AV, no nothing else. Just a handful of games. It doesn't get used for browsing, word processing, or even listening to music. All my XP boot does is play games. Why? Because I'm too lazy to get them running under Wine.
So there you have it - I have two operating systems, because I'm lazy. I'm too lazy to get games working under Linux, and I'm too lazy to get Windows set up to be secure and provide me with a useful working environment.
I was thinking the same thing - this sounds like a Gentoo minimal install. However, the summary states there's no USB ports or CD drive. Without some serious digging, I don't know that you can do a non-CD Gentoo install.
Personally, I'd find an old CD drive, hook it up, and install off a CD. It's FAR easier than trying to do some shit with floppies, or trying to boot off a serial cable or something. I'd be surprised if anyone trying to install linux on old hardware doesn't know someone with an old 4x CD drive kicking around that they could borrow for a few hours. That would be far less painful than any alternatives.
That's not the only ISO->bootable USB stick program, but I can confirm I've used it successfully to install the previous Xubuntu on my EEE. I know I've used another one or two as well, but I never bothered to bookmark or note which ones. I let google remember for me.
Damn. I've been saying this for years. If the C*Os got paid 5x the average of their underlings, the underlings would make far more money.
I'll buy stock in your company, when I'm no longer poor. Start it now, so it will be ready when I am....
Or RA. I'm doing minimal amounts of research while I take my core classes. When I'm done with them, and move into research full-time, my RA will pay for my entire grad degree, including badass health benefits.
Grad work in search of a PhD makes you a minimal amount of money. BS/BA degrees leave you $20-$100k in debt. While my outstanding $17k in student loans is deferred while I go to grad school, I definitely don't make enough to put a dent in that debt. It's the undergrad degree that's the killer.
Well, there are always two sides to any review. One party will call it good research, good science. The other will call it horribly flawed, poorly cited, and misguided. Who is right? Both are.
Science is only as good as the time it was done in. Should you put the research of a 16th, 17th century scientist in a current journal, it would be ripped to shreds. But when it was done, it was good enough.
That is the real value of science. At the moment, it is good enough. It explains 70% of what we don't know. It might be wrong, it might be right, but for the time being, it's good enough. In time, it will be bad science. Almost all science is bad science, given enough time. But for now, it's good enough.
Can you always pick apart science? Of course! Because it's not perfect. It doesn't do everything, nor explain everything. But for the moment, given our current knowledge and current technology, it's good enough.
And that's good enough reason for me to believe in it.
In my experience, it does. It might not be where you want to live, or exactly what science you want, but there is plenty of science out there which will pay you to do it. It might not be a fortune, but you can get paid to do science.
Suck up a $18k a year graduate student job for 5 years, get a PhD, and then get paid $50k a year to do science in a university. It's a recession-proof, guaranteed job. Advancement is minimal, but the benefits are great, and the freedom is even better. From what I've experienced, it sure beats a corporate slave-job.
I bailed on IT after only 3 years. I'm pretty good at it, but the corporate atmosphere is horrific. It's taken awhile, but I've stumbled my way back into graduate school doing climate modeling. I get to program again, give input on terabyte raid arrays, learn how to get 256 processors clustered to do parallel processing, etc. It's fun IT. I work on a high-end mac, and ssh into borderline supercomputers to get work done. Compared to helpdesk and the corporate machine, it's heaven.
The pay is poor, graduate pay at the moment. But there are a couple dozen people in my building with PhDs who are doing this for a living. There are another six or so who are staff, with no PhD. Both are doing IT work 9-4, with an hour for lunch sort of IT work. Building rack servers, programming weather models, all sorts of intellectual, low-stress, rewarding work.
If you're corporate IT job is making you hate life, dump the corporate part, not the IT part.
I've spent a little time around a moose that had just died. It didn't smell bad at all. In fact, once a tenderloin was sizzling up with some mushrooms and onions, garlic and seasoning, it smelled pretty damn good.
Now, if you are talking about a place that smelled like a moose died in it last month, then I'm with you.
tangible threats, like flames, blood and gore, falling rocks,
WOW addicts stumbling down streets, moaning incoherently...
Hahahahahahah.....I was about to mod you down, but that's FUCKING PRICELESS!
You tried to install Apache....on a server...which wasn't connected to the internet......
I once tried to turn on a light which wasn't plugged in, and that didn't work either.....
Seriously, if you suck that badly at trolling, don't troll. It makes you look dumb. Stick to setting up your servers in your cave - you'll be far more successful in that endeavor.
Um, you're suggesting putting a bunch of attractive women in a small, confined space together.....do you not know how well women get along over extended time periods?
Oh, slashdot, women....right. Carry on.
For the record, I don't know if I'd rather be one of six guys or one guy with 5 other women. When you're rationing water so there is limited bathing, three are now in cycle and so are PMSing at the same time, she took the last bit of ice cream, well, you obviously don't need any more, who are you calling fat, etc, I don't know if it would be worth the sex.
I personally like the story behind Tetris. The social commentary about how you may turn yourself to fit into a group, but you can never change your true shape. And just when you find a good, solid group to fit in with, it disappears, leaving you turning in the wind again, trying to fit in somewhere else.
It's like a metaphor for being a teenager.