For anyone getting into perl I can not recomend The Perl Monks Monastery enough. Lurk for a while, use super search to find the answers to almost any perl question you may have and if all else fails post to Seakers Of Perl Wisdom and enlightenment shall surely follow.
Randal is a regular contributor there and many of the other leading lights of perl pop up frequently.
I use softick card exporter (site is not responding to me, look for the google cache) which makes the card show up as a USB drive. Under linux it is a scsi device like any other usb card reader and can be mounted and used as a normal drive. When done make sure you sync and unmount !
I am European, I have been trogging around this continent and a few other for buisness and pleasure for many years. What is all this about batteries lining up or even having lots of batteries causing a security scare ? We have had terrorists of many flavours, IRA, ETA, Bader Maenhoff, UDP, PLO, Real IRA, Various commies, various faschists even the bloody animal lib chaps for years, we let them all on planes with bateries and sadfkgsdakfcsgdfk8ladf dsf9ryq +++NO CARRIER
Here (in the netherlands) pretty much every supermarket or major chain shop has a battery recycling box. We have paper, glass, clothes, and even small chemical waste recycling points in all the cities, towns and many villages along with active campaigns to get people to drop things in the right box.
I guess MSNBC missed this one (so did Mars air defence, the ground troops got it though) the Soviet Mars 3 lander made it down and got off a small transmission before it died, probably due to a large dust storm raging at the time.
All I can say is flat flat flat, not the tire the Netherlands;-). Unsprung weight is not to important in a low performance vehicle running on good roads (Apeldoorn has well maintained roads, you should see the taxes here). In a bus the unsprung mass will still be rather a small proportion of the total mass even for rather massive wheel motors. The big bastard springs that carry all that bus will not have to much trouble holding the wheels on the road.
Nadolig llawen, R.
Re:35 min. NY to LA passenger flights? Keep dreami
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The craft being designed is very different from an SR-71.
Most of the heating occurs at the leading edges, nose, wings, engine cowlings, windshield. With a larger passenger craft there is far more aircraft volume/leading edge ratio to aid dissipation of heat. Perhaps they can use some of it to warm the coffee better than tepid:)
The idea is also to fly far higher than an SR-71 (between 35 and 60km) so there will be less frictional heating. The article the article talks about the craft skipping across the top of the atmosphere like a stone skimmed accross a pond, you did read the article ?
As it descends into denser air, the aircraft would be pushed up by the increased aerodynamic lift. The engines would fire briefly, propelling the plane back into space. Outside the atmosphere, the engines shut off and the process repeats. In this way, HyperSoar would skip off the top layer of the atmosphere every two or so minutes, like a flat rock skittering in slow motion across the surface of a pond.
Insulation on the leading edges does not need to be stronger than titanium, look at how the shuttle copes (mostly) with re entry at hypersonic velocities. The insulation is not that strong but protects the structural elements from the extreme heat.
All in it is a very different beast undoubtedly with a multitude of problems (Air breathing H2 engines are not exactly ten a penny) but just to claim it is impossible because the blackbird almost baked its crew in pie is probably not one of them.
Cheers, R.
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Ummm, do you remember a little old thing called the Concorde, Mach 2 in shirtsleaves in the 70's. Heating is a problem but not as big as you are making out.
I Sail on a rather small boat with sat comms using a gyro stabalised dish in a little dome. If you take the dome off it is some fun to watch the thing stay pointed while the boat pitches and rolls every which way (as long as you do not suffer from seasickness*). It does a fantastic job of keeping a (two way) signal even in rather rough weather.
* Watching the dish track is not the problem, getting the bloody dome on and off in bad weather is sure to send you for the leeward rail
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I just got this on the FLAC developers mailing list.
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:17:20 -0700 From: Derek at CD Baby To: flac-dev@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Flac-dev] CD Baby using FLAC to archive 40,000 CDs
Hey FLAC gang -
Just thought you'd like to know CD Baby has switched to FLAC for archiving the 40,000 CDs we have in stock.
Luckily HD space is down below $1/gig so we got a 6-terabyte RAID-5 box set up for about $7000.
Got the FreeBSD boxes churning away night and day, ripping and archiving.
I'll do a more formal press release for ya in a couple months as we're further along, but just wanted to let you guys know.
This isn't an online thing, just an offline backup system, for long-term use when CDs aren't the main music format anymore.
-- Derek Sivers, CD Baby, Hostbaby http://www.cdbaby.com
I was using email in the government and in private companies long before connections to the internet were common. Read the Friendly Article and you will find out what use they had for emailing each other before they could email the outside world.
Don't you get so smug either, my 2 Euro coin is worth about two of your 1 dollar coins which nobody can find anyway and my 2 pound (UK) coin comes to about three of your earth dollars (after completion of US world domination, may not apply in all juristrictions).
I do however like the aussie plastic money as you can go swimming with a pocket full of notes and still be able to use them to load up on VB when you finaly pull yourself out the water (in fact I suspect this is the real reason they have plastic notes) If you carried the same value in those 1 aussie dollar coins you would not float.
The old rain forests are in equilibrium. Old trees die and rot (or burn) and only some carbon is fixed most is re-released and balanced out by the growth replacing the old trees.
The coniferous forests of the northern hemisphere are often actively logged so have much young vigourous carbon fixing growth with the carbon being cut down and dragged off to make paper/ikea furniture.
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I thinks its traditional for the lawyers to fork their clients
> and the furthest they can come is 27 meters.
At first I thought you come closer and go further, so this should read "and the furthest apart they will be is 27 meters"
Then I realised if the fine purveyors of spam are right perhaps they can come 27m.
And ensure your entry is in the upright position ?
For anyone getting into perl I can not recomend The Perl Monks Monastery enough. Lurk for a while, use super search to find the answers to almost any perl question you may have and if all else fails post to Seakers Of Perl Wisdom and enlightenment shall surely follow.
Randal is a regular contributor there and many of the other leading lights of perl pop up frequently.
Regards,
A monk.
I use softick card exporter (site is not responding to me, look for the google cache) which makes the card show up as a USB drive. Under linux it is a scsi device like any other usb card reader and can be mounted and used as a normal drive. When done make sure you sync and unmount !
you could provide a permanent node on freenet bandwidth is always needed there.
First lets get this clear, this is no troll.
I am European, I have been trogging around this continent and a few other for buisness and pleasure for many years. What is all this about batteries lining up or even having lots of batteries causing a security scare ? We have had terrorists of many flavours, IRA, ETA, Bader Maenhoff, UDP, PLO, Real IRA, Various commies, various faschists even the bloody animal lib chaps for years, we let them all on planes with bateries and sadfkgsdakfcsgdfk8ladf dsf9ryq +++NO CARRIER
Here (in the netherlands) pretty much every supermarket or major chain shop has a battery recycling box. We have paper, glass, clothes, and even small chemical waste recycling points in all the cities, towns and many villages along with active campaigns to get people to drop things in the right box.
> Maglevs are cool
At one billionth of a degree above absolute zero, you are damn right they are cool
I guess MSNBC missed this one (so did Mars air defence, the ground troops got it though) the Soviet Mars 3 lander made it down and got off a small transmission before it died, probably due to a large dust storm raging at the time.
Cheers,
R.
bollox
cks
Please do a little googling before your post you predjudice.
Cheers,
R.
Chernobyl fallout
none of them are salt water species either but they colonised the antipodies rather well despite massive salt water barriers.
Cheers,
R.
All I can say is flat flat flat, not the tire the Netherlands ;-). Unsprung weight is not to important in a low performance vehicle running on good roads (Apeldoorn has well maintained roads, you should see the taxes here). In a bus the unsprung mass will still be rather a small proportion of the total mass even for rather massive wheel motors. The big bastard springs that carry all that bus will not have to much trouble holding the wheels on the road.
Nadolig llawen,
R.
Most of the heating occurs at the leading edges, nose, wings, engine cowlings, windshield. With a larger passenger craft there is far more aircraft volume/leading edge ratio to aid dissipation of heat. Perhaps they can use some of it to warm the coffee better than tepid
The idea is also to fly far higher than an SR-71 (between 35 and 60km) so there will be less frictional heating. The article the article talks about the craft skipping across the top of the atmosphere like a stone skimmed accross a pond, you did read the article ?
Insulation on the leading edges does not need to be stronger than titanium, look at how the shuttle copes (mostly) with re entry at hypersonic velocities. The insulation is not that strong but protects the structural elements from the extreme heat.
All in it is a very different beast undoubtedly with a multitude of problems (Air breathing H2 engines are not exactly ten a penny) but just to claim it is impossible because the blackbird almost baked its crew in pie is probably not one of them.
Cheers,
R.
Ummm, do you remember a little old thing called the Concorde, Mach 2 in shirtsleaves in the 70's. Heating is a problem but not as big as you are making out.
I see his trick already. Post on /. that you plan to map the entire net and then wait till the entire net maps its way to you.
P.S.
Is there such a thing as trecart ?
Did you try booting knopix and using dd to take an image ? Simple, free, bit perfect copies.
I Sail on a rather small boat with sat comms using a gyro stabalised dish in a little dome. If you take the dome off it is some fun to watch the thing stay pointed while the boat pitches and rolls every which way (as long as you do not suffer from seasickness*). It does a fantastic job of keeping a (two way) signal even in rather rough weather.
* Watching the dish track is not the problem, getting the bloody dome on and off in bad weather is sure to send you for the leeward rail
I was using email in the government and in private companies long before connections to the internet were common. Read the Friendly Article and you will find out what use they had for emailing each other before they could email the outside world.
> Was 5 naked people at once really not enough?
And that was just one of the pics.
They do get rather excited though by the prOn.
Don't you get so smug either, my 2 Euro coin is worth about two of your 1 dollar coins which nobody can find anyway and my 2 pound (UK) coin comes to about three of your earth dollars (after completion of US world domination, may not apply in all juristrictions).
I do however like the aussie plastic money as you can go swimming with a pocket full of notes and still be able to use them to load up on VB when you finaly pull yourself out the water (in fact I suspect this is the real reason they have plastic notes) If you carried the same value in those 1 aussie dollar coins you would not float.
The old rain forests are in equilibrium. Old trees die and rot (or burn) and only some carbon is fixed most is re-released and balanced out by the growth replacing the old trees.
The coniferous forests of the northern hemisphere are often actively logged so have much young vigourous carbon fixing growth with the carbon being cut down and dragged off to make paper/ikea furniture.