Disconnect the pipes from the main and flush them with compressed air. Pour sealant oil down the all the drains to fill them, mineral oil is ok. Disconnect electricity, water and heat as it makes it unappealing to 'guests'. Install a reasonably good burgler alarm system. Remove anything of value. Install heavy curtains. Have all mail forwarded or collected daily. Have someone local who can check on the property weekly.
Renting out the property may be an option but if you go that route I'd let a property manager handle it. They can see that the place is maintained, collect money, process evictions, etc.
The longest lasting information storage mediums known are animal products and paper, says a lot about modern technology.:)
I doubt printing it in an encoded system onto acid free paper is viable. I've thought on this a small bit and the best I could come up with was etched aluminum. Then a recent article on aluminum oxide made me think it might be quickly and permanently markable with a laser but without the high temperatures you'd think would be needed to 'etch' the surface.
Reusing computers is a good idea. With the current increase in metals pricing it becomes desirable to reclaim the metals. Within 30 years you will see 'landfill mining' to recover, metal, plastic, rubber and organics. I would suggest investing in a large one.:)
I'd like to read them and will at some point. I've read several different books on the subject going all the way back to Robert Heinlein's revolt in 2010. Some are factual with speculation, some are fiction with some fact.
They disarmed the populace after WWI because of this they had no long arms for home defense at the onset of WWII. US citizens responded by sending them what personal arms we had for their home defense. After WWII these donated guns became rebar and they again disarmed the populace.
Britain has become the showcase of how to facilitate big brother socialism. They have more cameras per capita than any other country I know of and plan on adding more and to add microphones and loudspeakers to them. Civil rights have been abrogated to the point of non-existence. I didn't know how close to current times the movie V for Vendetta was. This is normal for the UK, after WWII the government completely disarmed the populace and were well on the way to this state until WWII interupted. They did rally and win in the face of crushing odds. I don't think that the modern British citizen is capable of that amount of fortitude anymore. I feel this way mostly because the elimination of their rights has went with mostly a whimper.
Convention goers have been doing this for ages as have SCA, deadheads and other groups. You put out a call to share a hotel room, either for free space, share some of the hotel bill or something and see if anyone is interested. It's now much easier with the internet. Having a group of like minded people goes a long way to vetting them as trustworthy or at least mostly harmless.
From the article it still sounds like they've continued the dumbing down of 1.5 with some features grudgingly added back in. I could not stand the first 2.0 beta and probably will not bother with it until I find something else or I'm forced to use it.
The author sounds like a nuke phobe. Russian needs power and a lot of it. They have vast untapped region of natural resources in that area and they need to utilize them to provide for their people and compete with the west. The west would benefit from this.
This would make a good poll. I have had several Maxtor drives fail and have had no problem getting them replaced. I had good luck with them even to the point of taking the charred electronics off an old drive and recovering it and then transfering the data to the replaced drive and electronics. Life expectancy of the replaced drives has been good, I'm still using one from 10 years ago.
I used to run a scan of a new drive and tested them for bad blocks with a variety of patterns in a registered shareware program I had. When the drives broke 2 gig that is not very damn easy to do any more. Even writing 1s to it verifying and writing 0s takes too damn long.
If the data was critical. I'd run a raid with every disaster recovery option I can think of or invent.
It would be worth it if it would keep the laptop running for at least 48 hours. If it were a detachable unit and provided 12 volts hell there's a lot that could be done with it.
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Disconnect the pipes from the main and flush them with compressed air. Pour sealant oil down the all the drains to fill them, mineral oil is ok. Disconnect electricity, water and heat as it makes it unappealing to 'guests'. Install a reasonably good burgler alarm system. Remove anything of value. Install heavy curtains. Have all mail forwarded or collected daily. Have someone local who can check on the property weekly.
Renting out the property may be an option but if you go that route I'd let a property manager handle it. They can see that the place is maintained, collect money, process evictions, etc.
I've submitted several stories that have been declined. Now they're begging for stories and I'm not inclined. Besides I want paid to play.
Laptops are one of the few items that don't get dumped. I see crap ones go for 40 or more on ebay.
The other electronics trash may be a problem now but it will be gold for whoever owns it later, same for landfills.
I'm all for not having the same outlook as corprat media wants me to have. Freedom is on the rise and this terrifies the elite.
Indiana like all states were forced to put some sort of code on them. Indiana chose a barcode that you can erase with an ink eraser. :)
Just zap the thing with a magnet, eraser, paint, solvent, etc.
The misinterpretation of such symbols have been used countless times for scifi stories and in animated and live action movies. :)
The longest lasting information storage mediums known are animal products and paper, says a lot about modern technology. :)
I doubt printing it in an encoded system onto acid free paper is viable. I've thought on this a small bit and the best I could come up with was etched aluminum. Then a recent article on aluminum oxide made me think it might be quickly and permanently markable with a laser but without the high temperatures you'd think would be needed to 'etch' the surface.
Now I cannot find the article, bother.
The domain admin is a loser with an aol email address.
With it you really get to kill demon processes. In 3D. With a plasma rifle.
http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
Reusing computers is a good idea. With the current increase in metals pricing it becomes desirable to reclaim the metals. Within 30 years you will see 'landfill mining' to recover, metal, plastic, rubber and organics. I would suggest investing in a large one. :)
I'd like to read them and will at some point. I've read several different books on the subject going all the way back to Robert Heinlein's revolt in 2010. Some are factual with speculation, some are fiction with some fact.
They disarmed the populace after WWI because of this they had no long arms for home defense at the onset of WWII. US citizens responded by sending them what personal arms we had for their home defense. After WWII these donated guns became rebar and they again disarmed the populace.
Britain has become the showcase of how to facilitate big brother socialism. They have more cameras per capita than any other country I know of and plan on adding more and to add microphones and loudspeakers to them. Civil rights have been abrogated to the point of non-existence. I didn't know how close to current times the movie V for Vendetta was. This is normal for the UK, after WWII the government completely disarmed the populace and were well on the way to this state until WWII interupted. They did rally and win in the face of crushing odds. I don't think that the modern British citizen is capable of that amount of fortitude anymore. I feel this way mostly because the elimination of their rights has went with mostly a whimper.
Convention goers have been doing this for ages as have SCA, deadheads and other groups. You put out a call to share a hotel room, either for free space, share some of the hotel bill or something and see if anyone is interested. It's now much easier with the internet. Having a group of like minded people goes a long way to vetting them as trustworthy or at least mostly harmless.
I'm all for carving up NPR's monopoly on valuable public property.
Overcharging and dumbing redhat down down. I will be switching out my desktop and servers soon.
From the article it still sounds like they've continued the dumbing down of 1.5 with some features grudgingly added back in. I could not stand the first 2.0 beta and probably will not bother with it until I find something else or I'm forced to use it.
Something similar was predicted by Charles Sheffield in "The Compleat McAndrew"
6 7157857X.htm?blurb
http://www.webscription.net/chapters/067157857X/0
I miss Mr. Sheffield. There are few true scientists who write hard science fiction.
Give me a SWITCH GOD DAMMIT I am the COMMANDER of the O N O F F CONSOLE!
ZERO POWER!
ZERO POWER!
ZERO POWER!
The author sounds like a nuke phobe. Russian needs power and a lot of it. They have vast untapped region of natural resources in that area and they need to utilize them to provide for their people and compete with the west. The west would benefit from this.
So with this software it will be cheaper to make my fakes?
Hurray!
to make sure my fakes are not fakes?
This would make a good poll. I have had several Maxtor drives fail and have had no problem getting them replaced. I had good luck with them even to the point of taking the charred electronics off an old drive and recovering it and then transfering the data to the replaced drive and electronics. Life expectancy of the replaced drives has been good, I'm still using one from 10 years ago.
I used to run a scan of a new drive and tested them for bad blocks with a variety of patterns in a registered shareware program I had. When the drives broke 2 gig that is not very damn easy to do any more. Even writing 1s to it verifying and writing 0s takes too damn long.
If the data was critical. I'd run a raid with every disaster recovery option I can think of or invent.
It would be worth it if it would keep the laptop running for at least 48 hours. If it were a detachable unit and provided 12 volts hell there's a lot that could be done with it.
*another* prequel? They never learn.
So Kirk will be 12 and Spock will be 100 and McCoy will *still* be 90 and Uhura will not have developed yet.
It will die quickly.