Speaking as a Kinkoid myself, we'd probably try to distill it into a PDF first. (The days of folks sending us raw PostScript files are pretty much past, though I see EPS fairly often.) Judging by the behavior of ps2pdf here, Distiller would take rather a long time, maybe pop out an error. I might try sending it to a RIP server that allows previews before producing actual paper. At that point I'd try to call the client, discover the faked info, and trash the file.
Now you've got me curious, though; I'm going to take the file to work tomorrow and see what Distiller makes of it.:)
Just out of curiosity, what security checks do the janitors go through? Repair personnel? What if there is a fire? Are there security-cleared firemen?
I can answer, from personal experience with less secure facilities. Totally secure facilities like the one described would not have janitors; cleaning and such would be done by the military personnel. Likewise, repairs would be conducted by the same people already there for routine maintenance -- military personnel stationed there.
Further, if security is extreme, they'd also have on-site emergency personnel; otherwise, the watch would decide (or be ordered) to allow outside personnel in, based on written emergency procedures. Such procedures are in place for all military facilities, covering everything from minor fires to disaster evacuations.
Hair drier? Too slow!:)
In the Navy, the folks in my electronics shop used a good old heat gun -- made for shrinking plastic insulation to cover spliced wires -- that produces a directed stream of air quite a bit hotter than a regular blow-drier.
Doing the badly-frosted freezer in our shop took less than ten minutes with the heat gun. We were too laz^H^H^Hefficient to wait a few hours with the fridge unplugged!
Also, as was recently hypothesized, there may be microbes in places other than earth and they are likely to not be very healthy for the plants and vegetables that we are going to eat..
I don't think extra-terrestrial microbes are likely to be a threat to us. After all, the thousands of terrestrial ones have evolved with us as their hosts. Many -- though certainly not all -- diseases that affect humans can't even infect other animals living on the same planet. I think Mars colonists will have more to fear from the germs they bring with them than from any indigenous ones. Martian microbes would have had no experience with Terran life, so they wouldn't be ready to infect us.
That said, I enjoy the thought of growing purple potatoes on the red planet.:)
But there's no way I'm going to type in all that stuff by hand.
That's exactly what I did for 1000+ books and comics in my collection, a couple of years ago. I sure wish I had had a free barcode scanner then! I am looking forward to getting my hands on one, plus the emerging scripts & programs to decode the scans, so that I can keep my database up to date more easily. (Hmm... is there an online lookup site for ISBNs... Amazon? Library of Congress?:)
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Now you've got me curious, though; I'm going to take the file to work tomorrow and see what Distiller makes of it. :)
With all this talk of "toilet humor", I find it ironic that immediately following the sex post on my Slashdot front page was an article about toilets.
I can answer, from personal experience with less secure facilities. Totally secure facilities like the one described would not have janitors; cleaning and such would be done by the military personnel. Likewise, repairs would be conducted by the same people already there for routine maintenance -- military personnel stationed there.
Further, if security is extreme, they'd also have on-site emergency personnel; otherwise, the watch would decide (or be ordered) to allow outside personnel in, based on written emergency procedures. Such procedures are in place for all military facilities, covering everything from minor fires to disaster evacuations.
Hair drier? Too slow! :)
In the Navy, the folks in my electronics shop used a good old heat gun -- made for shrinking plastic insulation to cover spliced wires -- that produces a directed stream of air quite a bit hotter than a regular blow-drier.
Doing the badly-frosted freezer in our shop took less than ten minutes with the heat gun. We were too laz^H^H^Hefficient to wait a few hours with the fridge unplugged!
I don't think extra-terrestrial microbes are likely to be a threat to us. After all, the thousands of terrestrial ones have evolved with us as their hosts. Many -- though certainly not all -- diseases that affect humans can't even infect other animals living on the same planet. I think Mars colonists will have more to fear from the germs they bring with them than from any indigenous ones. Martian microbes would have had no experience with Terran life, so they wouldn't be ready to infect us.
That said, I enjoy the thought of growing purple potatoes on the red planet. :)
But there's no way I'm going to type in all that stuff by hand.
:)
That's exactly what I did for 1000+ books and comics in my collection, a couple of years ago. I sure wish I had had a free barcode scanner then! I am looking forward to getting my hands on one, plus the emerging scripts & programs to decode the scans, so that I can keep my database up to date more easily. (Hmm... is there an online lookup site for ISBNs... Amazon? Library of Congress?