Bay Bridge, San Francisco. We were in a car about to cross the bridge, when the ground beneath us started to shake. It wasn't a quake. It was the MF in the car behind us playing thumpa-thumpa-thumpa noise into a massive bass speaker system.
Thanks for the informative article. You sited one party as being responsible for the demise of the British space program. Looking at the article to which you kindly provided a link, it seemed that there were other factors. Those who would be using the ground based rocket did not seem to want it.
Sorry, I meant to include a link to BBC in N. Ireland along with Wales and Scotland, to highlight non-English programs from countries in the UK other than England:
Thinking Machines had a parallel processing computer with hundreds of blinking LEDs. It appeared in a documentary about Richard P Feynman. He helped go through the Boolean Logic and reduce the number of logic gates required for the various circuits or something like that..
Yes there has been an increase in broadband users. However it may also be the case that dial-up users can least afford to download critical updates for their supplied OS. Here are the usual complaints:
"My PC is getting so slow these days, I think I need a new one"
"Why is dial-up so slow these days?"
I started getting a lot of infected spam recently, so I did the following:
1. Checked all the headers for the souce IP addresses. 2. Used dig -x to find the source ISP. 3. Compiled an abuse report and sent it to the ISP.
The common source was in fact a broadband service. Those infected and spoofed messages seem to have stopped.
I got talking to someone who was learning about computers at night classes. There was no mention of software firewalls or anti-virus....
"Bucharest, June 10, 2003 – GeCAD Software has announced a definitive agreement with Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., USA, by which Microsoft will acquire GeCAD’s antivirus technology. Microsoft has stated its intention to integrate GeCAD’s technology into products and services that will help secure customers."
http://www.ravantivirus.com/
RAV produced RAV AntiVirus Desktop for Linux [8.1.4]
By all accounts it was a really good product. MS scuppered my plans to try it out >:(
A number of years before that would have been the late 1990's. Around the time myself and a friend took a short introductory course on Linux at a local college.
Neither of us had much success installing Linux at home. We were attempting to install Definite V 7, which was based on Linux Kernel 2.2.12
I concluded that the problems were due to hardware compatibility issues.
My friend quit trying to use Linux.
When SuSe 7.3 Pro was issued, I bought it and installed it. H/W might have been slightly different by then. H/W support was certainly better.
SuSe Pro 8.2 was even better.
True, there were h/w support issues remaining wrt my laptop. However that was resolved by downloading and installing SuSe 9.1 Personal.
Stability problems I've encountered were related to firefox and KDE freaking out. This only occured with certain websites with media links such as the BBC... They use Real Player or WMP....
If these sites used open stanards there would be fewer problems.
IMHO. All comments based on my own experience. Opinions are not authoritive.
Having discussed this with the guys who did the trials for enterprise roll out in certain places, I agree with the parent. Whether you choose SuSe or RH will tend to depend on the corporate user requirement at the time of the initial trials.
UR's change. Weighting changes.
RH was the best solution five years ago for some corporate users. SuSe may be a better option now.
Personally the only Linux boxes I admin are my own. I dabbled with RH based distro's but found that the answer for me was SuSe 7.3 Pro. Also I was concerned about RH's direction at the time.
I admire other distro's and believe that they all have a part to play. WRT Enterprise - IMHO its a two horse race (UK) - at present. This could change.
I had this novel idea - how to get hot women to come up to you in the street and do something really cool!
Use flexible architecture to produce a dog jacket, that allows the hound to behave more or less normally. You could go looking for wi-fi hot spots and get your computer to play chess with other computers, while you walk the dog.
During a course on hand soldering of surface mount components the phenomenon of solder creep was demonstrated. You could see the crystaline path that formed under a binocular microscope.
Lead free may be more prone to this kind of solder creep. I don't know. However, for a reaction to take place there must be some catalyst. Board preparation is paramount. Lead solder has its own problems, maily due to oxidisation. Oxygen can be present in a vaccuum as oxides in a poorly formed solder joint. Indeed, no vaccuum is perfect.
Its not easy to guarantee immunity from contamination. Soldering is an effective but old technology. Space programs can have a duration which transcends many generations of innnovation.
As we know, Rockwell employed ferrite core store memory on the shuttle for a long time after the technology had been superceeded.
I would expect to see VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) modules to be used as opposed to discrete components. You want to ensure that there are no pathways for crystaline growth. I say modules as opposed to Integrated Circuits. Modules can incorporate IC's and discrete components but they really should be potted in a resin which cannot conduct electical current, metallics or moisture.
Caveat - all materials have a break down potential in terms of voltage current and charge at which they will conduct (closed circuit) or fuse (open circuit).
You can breakdown most materials given enough charge (Coulombs) and enough potential difference (volts).
It seems unlikely that a high enough pd is produced by mobile phones to cause breakdown, unless the antenna design is such that the electric field is at a very high level.
More likely is damage due to the old heating effect. Heating effect ultimately varies with field strength at the cell being observed, frequency (rf absorbancy varies with body mass and shape) and exposure time.
Caveat - I'm not a scientist.
That press report ain't scientific!
(I swap from ear to ear - cook both sides evenly as possible).
How about a rubik cube that automatically scrambles and solves the puzzle fifty times a minute, while belching green smoke, leaking ectoplasm and chanting
"melborp a deretnuocne sah swodniw...."
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Bay Bridge, San Francisco. We were in a car about to cross the bridge, when the ground beneath us started to shake. It wasn't a quake. It was the MF in the car behind us playing thumpa-thumpa-thumpa noise into a massive bass speaker system.
Every time I hear that noise, I think of MILAN.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILAN
"The Dutch will inherit the earth. If not, we'll settle for a bit of ocean."
Your sig reminds me. A pub I used to drink in was taken over bye a couple of dykes. It worked. They stopped decent beer from getting into the pub.
On a more serious note, Amstel Gold beer is great.
Thanks for the informative article. You sited one party as being responsible for the demise of the British space program. Looking at the article to which you kindly provided a link, it seemed that there were other factors. Those who would be using the ground based rocket did not seem to want it.
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And as for the party that replaced them?
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/tsr2/in
"All modern aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. TSR.2 simply got the first three right."
- Sir Sydney Camm
Sorry, I meant to include a link to BBC in N. Ireland along with Wales and Scotland, to highlight non-English programs from countries in the UK other than England:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/irish/
FYI, the BBC have regional production offices all over the UK, not just in England. Not all broadcasts are in English either, e.g., Welsh and Gailic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/alba/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/
Shoutcast and XMMS. There are quite a few channels to choose from and in some cases the quality is pretty good. http://shoutcast.com/
I set up shortcuts to the audio feeds I want, which launch XMMS to play the audio stream.
OTH live or recorded video streams (usually real) to suffer from buffering and lack of any standardisation.
If they cant be bothered to impliment a sensible solution, I can't be bothered to waste my time on them.
Yes it does run Linux.
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http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2005/
Thinking Machines had a parallel processing computer with hundreds of blinking LEDs. It appeared in a documentary about Richard P Feynman. He helped go through the Boolean Logic and reduce the number of logic gates required for the various circuits or something like that..
Some oufits go half way and supply the user with a PC but run it as a thin client with very limited local resources....
Yes there has been an increase in broadband users.
However it may also be the case that dial-up users can least afford to download critical updates for their supplied OS. Here are the usual complaints:
"My PC is getting so slow these days, I think I need a new one"
"Why is dial-up so slow these days?"
I started getting a lot of infected spam recently, so I did the following:
1. Checked all the headers for the souce IP addresses.
2. Used dig -x to find the source ISP.
3. Compiled an abuse report and sent it to the ISP.
The common source was in fact a broadband service.
Those infected and spoofed messages seem to have stopped.
I got talking to someone who was learning about computers at night classes. There was no mention of software firewalls or anti-virus....
Funnily enough there is an acme.com
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http://www.acme.com/
http://www.acme.com/other
ACME Laboratories
Graphics * Unix * Networks * Fun
Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972. On the net since 1991.
Check out the ACME produc list:
http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acm
"Bucharest, June 10, 2003 – GeCAD Software has announced a definitive agreement with Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., USA, by which Microsoft will acquire GeCAD’s antivirus technology. Microsoft has stated its intention to integrate GeCAD’s technology into products and services that will help secure customers."
http://www.ravantivirus.com/
RAV produced RAV AntiVirus Desktop for Linux [8.1.4]
By all accounts it was a really good product. MS scuppered my plans to try it out >:(
A number of years before that would have been the late 1990's. Around the time myself and a friend took a short introductory course on Linux at a local college.
Neither of us had much success installing Linux at home. We were attempting to install Definite V 7, which was based on Linux Kernel 2.2.12
I concluded that the problems were due to hardware compatibility issues.
My friend quit trying to use Linux.
When SuSe 7.3 Pro was issued, I bought it and installed it. H/W might have been slightly different by then. H/W support was certainly better.
SuSe Pro 8.2 was even better.
True, there were h/w support issues remaining wrt my laptop. However that was resolved by downloading and installing SuSe 9.1 Personal.
Stability problems I've encountered were related to firefox and KDE freaking out. This only occured with certain websites with media links such as the BBC... They use Real Player or WMP....
If these sites used open stanards there would be fewer problems.
IMHO. All comments based on my own experience. Opinions are not authoritive.
I think he was aluding to the sheeps ring
Having discussed this with the guys who did the trials for enterprise roll out in certain places, I agree with the parent. Whether you choose SuSe or RH will tend to depend on the corporate user requirement at the time of the initial trials.
UR's change. Weighting changes.
RH was the best solution five years ago for some corporate users. SuSe may be a better option now.
Personally the only Linux boxes I admin are my own. I dabbled with RH based distro's but found that the answer for me was SuSe 7.3 Pro. Also I was concerned about RH's direction at the time.
I admire other distro's and believe that they all have a part to play. WRT Enterprise - IMHO its a two horse race (UK) - at present. This could change.
what were they doing with blackberries?
Personally I prefer to eat blackberries and drink blackberry wine. You'd have to pick a lot of blackberries to get sore thumbs.
I had this novel idea - how to get hot women to come up to you in the street and do something really cool!
Use flexible architecture to produce a dog jacket, that allows the hound to behave more or less normally. You could go looking for wi-fi hot spots and get your computer to play chess with other computers, while you walk the dog.
Then I realised, two things:
1. The dog would cook
2. I don't have a dog
Don't laugh. Packet loss could happen to any one.
My back up browsers are:
Linux - Konqueror & Opera (I fact I use Konqueror quite often)
Win 98 - Opera
I don't need or want "AEIEEEE!!!"
You can use a knife and fork to eat with or you can assault somebody with them. Should they be banned?
Google is a tool!
Doors have locks to keep intruders out. If you choose to leave your door unlocked don't be too suprised if an opportunist walks in.
Thats reality. Twas ever thus.
The dumbed down culture of ignorance and litigation has a lot to answer for. Don't fall into the trap.
During a course on hand soldering of surface mount components the phenomenon of solder creep was demonstrated. You could see the crystaline path that formed under a binocular microscope.
Lead free may be more prone to this kind of solder creep. I don't know. However, for a reaction to take place there must be some catalyst. Board preparation is paramount. Lead solder has its own problems, maily due to oxidisation. Oxygen can be present in a vaccuum as oxides in a poorly formed solder joint. Indeed, no vaccuum is perfect.
Its not easy to guarantee immunity from contamination. Soldering is an effective but old technology. Space programs can have a duration which transcends many generations of innnovation.
As we know, Rockwell employed ferrite core store memory on the shuttle for a long time after the technology had been superceeded.
I would expect to see VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) modules to be used as opposed to discrete components. You want to ensure that there are no pathways for crystaline growth. I say modules as opposed to Integrated Circuits. Modules can incorporate IC's and discrete components but they really should be potted in a resin which cannot conduct electical current, metallics or moisture.
Caveat - all materials have a break down potential in terms of voltage current and charge at which they will conduct (closed circuit) or fuse (open circuit).
You can breakdown most materials given enough charge (Coulombs) and enough potential difference (volts).
It seems unlikely that a high enough pd is produced by mobile phones to cause breakdown, unless the antenna design is such that the electric field is at a very high level.
More likely is damage due to the old heating effect. Heating effect ultimately varies with field strength at the cell being observed, frequency (rf absorbancy varies with body mass and shape) and exposure time.
Caveat - I'm not a scientist.
That press report ain't scientific!
(I swap from ear to ear - cook both sides evenly as possible).
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When you start dreaming about work, its just as well to find distractions....
How about a rubik cube that automatically scrambles and solves the puzzle fifty times a minute, while belching green smoke, leaking ectoplasm and chanting
"melborp a deretnuocne sah swodniw...."
Little did I know I'd be having anything to do with computers or IT in general.
I also had Magnets bulbs and batteries and many years later worked with electronics.
Then there was how to build a transistor radio - years later I got my ham licence...
These little books were really good at the time and some of them are now collectors items.
(Mine were chewed by dogs, scribbled in my "friends" or stolen - "can I borrow (er never bother to return) that?"
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