"hotwired the battery...we don't need no stinkin' ground shutoff code...Sensors - never got around to testing them...we left some slop...ya think something rated at 4G would work up to 6G?...we know the GPS receivers are vibration sensitive so we stuck some bubble wrap round them and hoped...we checked earlier telemetry and yup - they're darn vibration sensitive...hold on lads; I've got an idea...The rocket has gotta return to the ground at some point; if only we'd done some testing on this...John's doing some fancy flying - oh, sh*t, he's not...now the tanks are scrap we're probably going to do some useful tests on them that we wouldn't have done with usable ones - heck those things cost money, baby...some of the wiring harness is wrapped in leather so we're going to alienate the vegan customer base...flammable foam catches fire."
I think I'll walk.
PS: The captcha I had to type in to submit this was "Piloting" - BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Science labs around the world will soon migrate from the 'leave a charged capacitor lying around' trick to the 'can you take that note over there to Mr Smith' trick.
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A good few years ago I travelled from the UK to the USA and worked in Cincinnati for two weeks. After a few days of hotel food and restaurants I fancied a break so I asked someone where I was working if there was somewhere local (ie: walking distance) I could buy some fresh fruit - they thought for a while and could only come up with a supermarket several miles outside town.
My company has 30 sites and so it was easy for us to install (Linux) servers at multiple locations and arrange overnight rsync backups of data, server-located 'My Documents' folders, email & Intranet redundancy etc. for business continuity. I am a school governor for my son's local primary school and their backup procedure comprised a disk-to-disk copy from their main student server to another Windows-based server on the network, with an occasional dump to a removable hard disk.
When the school decided to improve their backup (after a disk failure and realisation that their backup process had not been working for a while, naturally!), they approached their incumbent IT supplier for a recommendation - which turned out to be a new main server with Windows 2003 Server, enough CALs for the children, a dual Xeon processors, SCSI-based RAID 5 and removable tape - very functional, very corporate and very expensive (approx £6,500) for a school that teaches 5-11 year olds!
Having approached me for my comments, we are now looking at a two-way peering arrangement with the local secondary school comprising two Linux-based servers with SATA RAID 1 (the school is only using the server for low-volume file and print services so Samba and CUPS are just what's needed), and an overnight backup strategy through the education WAN. Total cost is approx £750 for the two servers.
The only thing that may not make this fly will be County Hall red tape.
No, it means that those who see it will be instantly identified and required to report to a local center for neuralization, then the Government will...er, ah, what was I saying. I forget. Never mind - look, it's stopped raining.
Yet I still have 2 x Acer Travelmate 600TER (PIII-600) units bought in 2001 and used round the house as Internet terminals. At work we buy Acer for the Managers and in the last 3 years the maintenance required has been two new batteries and on one 2-yr old model I replaced the power connector on the motherboard. Out experience with Acer has been very good but there you go.
Maybe there's a bit of irony in the fact that 50% of our mail servers are Acer Altos servers running CentOS 4 or CentOS 5 - OK, fair enough I had to install Linux myself.
It is, however, possible to get some low-end machines with SUSE pre-installed:
The development of solar power will go a good way to lowering our dependency on fossil fuels, but to be practical we need to deploy the cells in a massive scale - I'm thinking thousands of square miles of solar farms - so what we really need is a relatively flat landscape in a location with significant sunshine levels. It would also be ideal if the region could provide the raw materials for the manufacture of the cells to save in transportation costs, but to be perfect the region would also have an abundant supply of fossil fuels to power the manufacturing plants until such time as construction was complete.
It's LAMP-based and does inventory tracking too. It supports user-submitted tickets and has a rudimentary concept of service levels/escalation. Reporting needs some work, but you can always use third party tools for this.
A few years back I was contracted to run 2 x 1 week 'train the trainer' technical courses in the USA based on a training course I had developed. Being an upstanding UK citizen, I applied to the US embassy in London for a H1-B visa and the application was refused for (something like) 'insufficient details of nature of visit'. When I rang the visa enquiries line, I was connected to a call centre in Scotland that said they could provide no assistance as they were not embassy staff and all they could do was send me another form - and, no, they could not put me through the the embassy.
Armed with absolutely no knowledge of what information was missing from my application, I approached American Express who have a visa checking service - I took my application to their office in London (a 1.5 hour train ride), paid £70 extra for a 'personal service' and they checked over my application, gave it their 'OK' and submitted it to the Embassy by courier for same day processing. Guess what - same rejection.
In desperation, I approached a relative who worked in a different embassy in London and explained my dilemma - they rang a contact in the US embassy who put me in touch with someone in the visa department who agreed to look at my documents and call me back. After several hours, they called and said I would need a signed letter from the US training company confirming that they needed me to run the courses as there was no-one suitable in the USA who could do it. I arranged this by fax and then was later invited to the US embassy to get my visa - by now, this was the day before I was due to fly out!
But that's not the end of it - now when visiting the USA on holiday and filling in the visa waiver form on the plane, I have to answer 'yes' to the question asking whether I have ever been refused a US visa; this now guarantees me a near 100% chance of being stopped at US immigration for an interview, which generally goes like this:
* Sit in a waiting room for an hour * Get called into interview room * Asked why a visa was refused * Explain the fax I had to arrange * Asked 'is that all'? * Told I am free to go
Is that unique, single installs or does the figure include poor little Timmy who has had to reinstall Vista 7 times just to get the damn video drivers to work?/DRTFA//But then that's not the done thing is it!?
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I suppose the Russians will now go for eight fucking blades and an aloe lubrastrip?
I thought NTVDM was an NT-VMS Cross-development module?
Next you'll be telling me that SOL.EXE isn't a virtual Solaris environment.
My copy of Windows has a file called WOWEXEC (Wine on Windows?) - maybe it's been there all along?
You ANALYZED my post!???
That was not a good start.
Don't you need wood routers if you are doing spanning tree??
Executive summary:
"hotwired the battery...we don't need no stinkin' ground shutoff code...Sensors - never got around to testing them...we left some slop...ya think something rated at 4G would work up to 6G?...we know the GPS receivers are vibration sensitive so we stuck some bubble wrap round them and hoped...we checked earlier telemetry and yup - they're darn vibration sensitive...hold on lads; I've got an idea...The rocket has gotta return to the ground at some point; if only we'd done some testing on this...John's doing some fancy flying - oh, sh*t, he's not...now the tanks are scrap we're probably going to do some useful tests on them that we wouldn't have done with usable ones - heck those things cost money, baby...some of the wiring harness is wrapped in leather so we're going to alienate the vegan customer base...flammable foam catches fire."
I think I'll walk.
PS: The captcha I had to type in to submit this was "Piloting" - BWAHAHAHAHAHA
...I think they caught a cold ploughing their cash into SCO shares a while back.
Science labs around the world will soon migrate from the 'leave a charged capacitor lying around' trick to the 'can you take that note over there to Mr Smith' trick.
So is it OK to dust off my xenix floppies now?
...according to this Netcraft report:
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http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:
A good few years ago I travelled from the UK to the USA and worked in Cincinnati for two weeks. After a few days of hotel food and restaurants I fancied a break so I asked someone where I was working if there was somewhere local (ie: walking distance) I could buy some fresh fruit - they thought for a while and could only come up with a supermarket several miles outside town.
Hopefully things have changed!?
Speaking as one who lives in the middle of the country and buys all their produce at local farm shops, I think you are taking my post too seriously.
And you really think the following are made or formulated in Granny's kitchen and not by chemists in some industrial-sized 'lab':
Cola & other soft drinks
Yoghurt
Cheese in spray cans
Extruded corn snacks
Fast food burgers
etc.
Good point.
My company has 30 sites and so it was easy for us to install (Linux) servers at multiple locations and arrange overnight rsync backups of data, server-located 'My Documents' folders, email & Intranet redundancy etc. for business continuity. I am a school governor for my son's local primary school and their backup procedure comprised a disk-to-disk copy from their main student server to another Windows-based server on the network, with an occasional dump to a removable hard disk.
When the school decided to improve their backup (after a disk failure and realisation that their backup process had not been working for a while, naturally!), they approached their incumbent IT supplier for a recommendation - which turned out to be a new main server with Windows 2003 Server, enough CALs for the children, a dual Xeon processors, SCSI-based RAID 5 and removable tape - very functional, very corporate and very expensive (approx £6,500) for a school that teaches 5-11 year olds!
Having approached me for my comments, we are now looking at a two-way peering arrangement with the local secondary school comprising two Linux-based servers with SATA RAID 1 (the school is only using the server for low-volume file and print services so Samba and CUPS are just what's needed), and an overnight backup strategy through the education WAN. Total cost is approx £750 for the two servers.
The only thing that may not make this fly will be County Hall red tape.
No, it means that those who see it will be instantly identified and required to report to a local center for neuralization, then the Government will...er, ah, what was I saying. I forget. Never mind - look, it's stopped raining.
You are right. The original text uses 'begs the question' incorrectly, which is a common mistake.
Er...that's it...no need for others to spout pixelreams of verbiage about it, argue the toss or attempt to take the grammatical high ground.
Move on; there are far more important things to worry about.
Yet I still have 2 x Acer Travelmate 600TER (PIII-600) units bought in 2001 and used round the house as Internet terminals. At work we buy Acer for the Managers and in the last 3 years the maintenance required has been two new batteries and on one 2-yr old model I replaced the power connector on the motherboard. Out experience with Acer has been very good but there you go.
Yep, our Acer Altos mail servers were bought as barebones units with no OS and are now running CentOS Linux.
Well,
Maybe there's a bit of irony in the fact that 50% of our mail servers are Acer Altos servers running CentOS 4 or CentOS 5 - OK, fair enough I had to install Linux myself.
It is, however, possible to get some low-end machines with SUSE pre-installed:
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/128595
"Esys Computer System Celeron 2.66GHZ 512MB 80GB 2MB 16X DVD Rom. Linux"
But this seems more of a means to avoid a "M$ tax", although you do get a passable general desktop for £145 including VAT (no monitor).
The development of solar power will go a good way to lowering our dependency on fossil fuels, but to be practical we need to deploy the cells in a massive scale - I'm thinking thousands of square miles of solar farms - so what we really need is a relatively flat landscape in a location with significant sunshine levels. It would also be ideal if the region could provide the raw materials for the manufacture of the cells to save in transportation costs, but to be perfect the region would also have an abundant supply of fossil fuels to power the manufacturing plants until such time as construction was complete.
In summary, the ideal location would have:
Sun
Sand
Oil
You see what I did there!?
GLPI http://www.glpi-project.org/?lang=en is worth a look.
It's LAMP-based and does inventory tracking too. It supports user-submitted tickets and has a rudimentary concept of service levels/escalation. Reporting needs some work, but you can always use third party tools for this.
A few years back I was contracted to run 2 x 1 week 'train the trainer' technical courses in the USA based on a training course I had developed. Being an upstanding UK citizen, I applied to the US embassy in London for a H1-B visa and the application was refused for (something like) 'insufficient details of nature of visit'. When I rang the visa enquiries line, I was connected to a call centre in Scotland that said they could provide no assistance as they were not embassy staff and all they could do was send me another form - and, no, they could not put me through the the embassy.
Armed with absolutely no knowledge of what information was missing from my application, I approached American Express who have a visa checking service - I took my application to their office in London (a 1.5 hour train ride), paid £70 extra for a 'personal service' and they checked over my application, gave it their 'OK' and submitted it to the Embassy by courier for same day processing. Guess what - same rejection.
In desperation, I approached a relative who worked in a different embassy in London and explained my dilemma - they rang a contact in the US embassy who put me in touch with someone in the visa department who agreed to look at my documents and call me back. After several hours, they called and said I would need a signed letter from the US training company confirming that they needed me to run the courses as there was no-one suitable in the USA who could do it. I arranged this by fax and then was later invited to the US embassy to get my visa - by now, this was the day before I was due to fly out!
But that's not the end of it - now when visiting the USA on holiday and filling in the visa waiver form on the plane, I have to answer 'yes' to the question asking whether I have ever been refused a US visa; this now guarantees me a near 100% chance of being stopped at US immigration for an interview, which generally goes like this:
* Sit in a waiting room for an hour
* Get called into interview room
* Asked why a visa was refused
* Explain the fax I had to arrange
* Asked 'is that all'?
* Told I am free to go
And this was all well before 9/11 etc.
Did you press the 'sue him now' button?
How does this sit with the DMCA with regards to reverse engineering?
Is that unique, single installs or does the figure include poor little Timmy who has had to reinstall Vista 7 times just to get the damn video drivers to work? /DRTFA //But then that's not the done thing is it!?