ummm but, i'd like to know WHERE they were operating. I'm thinking that they might have been using certain unnamed currents in undisclosed trenches to gain access to other operating areas. Not as if we're talking Deep Space 9 wormholes and other sci-fi shows' jump gates and such. It's possible (of course i cannot prove it) that some submarine topography (for you who are NOT bubbleheads and don't know there is more than one meaning to "submarine"....) allows submarines to just drift dead silent. As long as there are markers (beacons) or landmarks that can be passively triangulated on, then the CO knows when to spin up the thruster/s to break out of the current and therefore "disappear".
The GIUK "choke point" is an area where for decades the USN got to enjoy using its SOSUS network and unnamed and some unacknowledged upgrades to see any and everything that went through. Soviet AGIs (intelligence craft outfitted to look like trawlers/fishing boats) sometimes followed my former ship (USS Flint (AE-32), and i'm talking about 1986; our captain even came over the 1MC and talked about the AGI that was shadowing us, and i shot 2 (low-quality) pics myself) out of the area off SF because they thought we were helping boomers from Bremerton in the area standing by or fast attacks from overhaul at Mare Island to slip out into the deep sea. After all, an AE-26 class ammo ship is some 560 feet long, 82 or so wide, and about 24+ deep, and we could back then (if it were requred) somewhat mask a boomer with our noisy steam plant. But, even back then the USN subs were super quiet, but not nearly as quiet (if i read correct) as Akula or some other titanium hulls the Soviets built at great expense and outfitted with Toshiba/someother Japanese technology-based propeller milling machines that helped Soviet boats just "disappear" when the USN had enjoyed detection superiority over the "enemy".
Anyway, getting back to my earlier point, it's possible these two boats were unfortunately transiting a passage at the same time, and once they detected minute mechanical sounds realized that avoiding collision was more important then posturing for destroying another ship, given the current (from their perspective) DEFCON-equivalent situation. They might have even known exactly whose boat was outside just prior to the collision, since hull scraping might mask or make difficult for several seconds to minutes what hull they hit.
Sonar detection (i'm not talking just about the active pinging type, but also the conformal arrays, trailed wire/towed array systems, and the friendly buoys that might relay (broadcast, not directional transmission) intel) and intelligence gathering over the past 20+ years (aided by espionage by all parties) has enabled various navies to know not ONLY nation and class of boat, but the EXACT boat-- so long as it was previously detected and had no post-detection overhauls that would alter the signature... things such as modifying pipes or pumps or condensers and turbo generator sets, or even the "rafts" on which whole decks sat on(keep in mind that the hull at depth are under ENORMOUS pressure pers square inch and the hull therefore compresses, meaning it's not advantageous ot have decks directly welded to the tube but rather to the bulkheads-mounted shock and noise attenuating sound mounts...) which would either change acoustics, magnetic properties or other things.
But, if they were transiting almost in parallel, they might have had a shallow angle collision. I wouldn't imagine them head on in the same stream if the purpose was to be drifting. Even if the media report a head on collision, we have no reason to accept that as truth unless we had experts we trusted visit each hull, look at the navigation logs, and interpolate the evidence, which by now will be marked/classified secret or higher, or which will have been "sanitized for public consumption".
One way to deal with their treacher is to make sure you watermark your uploaded photos. If they think they can take and sublicense your watermarked (with copyright info in the watermark), then it's time to FUCK them in court. They should ONLY ask for limited rights to subscribers'work ONLY for the purpose of making the site able to continue to work, NOT for farming for free any content USERS upload to share, privately or for advertising their hobby or business.
Seems like the cable-cos are going to start trying to play the part of the Bug Bunny Roadrunner Hour.... They just LOVE to keep racing over the edge of the cliff... hehhehe...
targets, if i could get away with naming thoses two bastard patent trollers, i sure as hell would. Unfortunately, Al Qaeda would see that as only *helping* the USPTO situation...
Why is almost everyone (so far) fixating on BULLETS?
Hell, if I had an army or some resisting force being assaulted by troops in armor, i'd set up IEDs, nuts and bolts, flame-throwers, and bouncing betty-type combinations of devices. Neck, face and limb armor will negate ANY head and upper body armor. As long as you set up confusion, sheer horror, and profuse bleeding, any army will spend an inordinate amount of time collecting casualties for triage. At some point, body bags going home will (ideally) cause resistance to more bodies coming home.
Also, for close-quarter combat, IMPROVISE. Set up spring-loaded, stud-fitted poles at neck, chest and shin level. Anyone walking into those traps will be one un-pretty fucked up individual. If you are defending YOUR TURF, i don't give a damn what country you are from, you have EVERY RIGHT to whack the shit out of intruders, and, morally, i support you. The point of war and combat should be to reduce war and combat, not create blind or programmed "rah rah rah".
Besides, much armor can be a death trap if the shit set ablaze, and made useless if penetrated in a concentrated area more than once. Without field replacements, anyone shot more than 3 or 4 times has got to be asking the Dirty Harry question: "Do I feel LUCKY?"
But, nevermind all that. Napalm for up close and personal, and microwave cooking for out to 50 yards, and distributed cluster bombs for random psychological dissuasion. Hell, in Afghanistan, heavily booby-trapped fields became so untrustworthy and costly to clear that the British (IIRC, it was British) just paved their own way through farm land and only THEN did they trust the road's safety agains "insurgents".
I am hoping this armor is not being paid for out the the "stimulus" package. IBM has enough money that they should pay for it themselves and recoup costs on sales -- as long as the cost is not burdensome to the Taxpayers. Besides, this is probably going to turn out to be more for pacifying troops psychologically than to actually be protective. All protection is just some layer in a larger near-local system. Senses, sharing information, and choosing to avoid catastrophe can go a long way in obviating a dependency on armor. But, since people are going to follow orders rather than be shot for cowardice in the face of an enemy...
But, at first, when i read the OP/summary, i immediately flashed forward thinking this would be like Chobham armor, or some kind of reactive armor that predetonates just before impact, so as to lessen the shock to the person under the armor. But, the effects would be as disorienting from inside the armor as from outside.
It might look ludicrous, but maybe they should just run together under a huge, deflector shield -- everyone carrying/shouldering their 3 pounds of transparent Kevlar, with the dirt skirt about 5 inches above ground. Now, if they could just program the TKDS to match the surroundings, IBM might be on to a better product. Unfortunately, though, anyone getting a few frag grenades under that skirt will turn that TKDS into a "dome of doom" with all that shrapnel creating "Hamburger Helper". Once the death dome hits the ground and stops moving, the enemy would redirect fire to entomb the next set of rolly-pollies...
The troopers run in Big Blue's ARMOR With glint and sprint each one's a CHARMER In humid climes the suit's a WARMER They are no match for pick-axe FARMER
Be brave and stout and dodge rounds nearby A jig you dance cuz rounds fly on by But whizz your pants-the round hit you guy Oh now you know - bionics can fry
(there is a store-all in this more, and there's a moral to this story)
HEHEHE... I suppose you have nobellium for grisly elements of decomposition...
It's kinda ironic: I almost had a galvanic response. It's not as if i told you to curium with erbium and eat em to get your carb(s)on. But, you know, to really get rid of those buggers, you have to cesium by the claws and cerium nice and good.
I guess -- out of some sense of noble thinking -- i periodically try to discharge a mass of polarizing outer ring, shell-shocking information. But, one way to dispose of the rats would be to continue to barium until they argon. Just be sure to clean your hands in the zinc, and don't let the director nickel and dime your budget to death. If the director wants to know what you did with the bodies, just say you sodium to the lowest-price bidder. As long as you don't discharge your duties in a hafnium manner, things will be a breeze.
"In the jurisdictions I know, breaking from jail by itself is NOT illegal, because pursuing freedom is a human right. However it is hardly possible to break out without committing a crime in the process (damage to property etc.). Caught fugitives can only be punished for these, and they get detention for the time out."
SERE: Survive, Escape, Resist, Evade
If troops are expected to do this when fighting on foreign soil, i suppose now i don't see why the incarcerated should not also hold themselves to this standard. Of course, troops trying to regain freedom to fight again or to return home will likely destroy property, take lives, cause pain somehow/somewhere...
I probably come off looking like a zealot, true. But, part of it is driven by the constant abuse by microsoft and other software vendors who just KEEP ON CONSUMING resources, as if to defeat Moore's Law.
I am running Win Vista inside of VirtualBox OSE. People seem to report VMs helping apps run faster than on native. one would expect that having heard this, ms of all software vendors would have (maybe they did this in w7?) virtualized windows even on native hardware just for the speed gains.
Someone else here mentioned being concerned that suspended machines might interfere with each other on resume/wake. I haven't had that problem. Admittedly, i've never run Linux inside windows, but i might for the sake of demoing to some Korean friends of mine looking to learn alternatives to windows.
But, it simply isn't fair for someone to have power to nail flamebait or troll on a comment if the comment lends itself to reproducibility. If anyone or enough people can attempt to reproduce my scenario and can refute, then more power to them. But, i am sick of slashdot not having a check/balances method of outing abusers who can't tolerate the fact that people will be emotionally charged with the relating of their own, undeniable personal experiences.
I am still wondering where the guy who troll-modded me is. The whole thread jesting ms' store plans probably has him/her in a thrombosis. Collectively, that thread is far more intense than what i wrote.
And, "Your BEST BUYS are ALWAYS at FRY's... GUARANteed..."
Then, we can all sing "Fly Robin Fly" and "Rat in the Kitchen"
Say, where's the UK guy who set up Linux-based web-cam surveillance in his home after being burgled several times. I bet someone could set up motion-tracking systems with a mesh floor. This could then reduce and concentrate electrical use only to the right grid...
Hit Grid 4-A.... "YOU SPANKED MY RATTLEship..." Or, steer the rats in an adjacent or diagonal set of grids and you have Connect Four...
And, if you're a Trekkie, add little doors and call them "Disintegration Chambers"... Or... RattleTraps.... they'll join the others on the other side of the "ExtraNet" / InterTubes...
Don't forget to have plenty of Lysol on hand, because with all that arcing and sparking there will be a lot of hissin' and pissin'..
But, a cleaner way to deal with this is to hook up a bunch of Habitrails to the rooms. When the trap doors close, gas their asses, or, if you run electrified wires all inside the tubes, you can you can shock them into the age of the Intertubes, and transmit their doomed souls into the ether, semi-wirelessly. The ones caught 7 feet off the floor will be in nose-bleed city, with a spectacular view, bright lights, and euphoric gas before meeting doom.
Be sure to hook up a flushing system, and be sure your doper friends don't see this as a hyooge fuqin hooka system.
I say, set up some tripwires for the rats. Bait them with Ratkensteins, or Frankenrats and treats to eat.
When they are scurrying about in the dark, on the wire-mesh-gridded floor, one or more of them trigger/s the 25 or so hidden Tesla coils that pop up like Bouncing Betty grenades. Only, these go vertical with wires, and with dart tips, they affix to the ceiling, as zapping and humming set off a cascade of:
Sqweee-squeee-squee squee, Sqweee-squeee-squee squee (multiplied by how many are getting the charge of their lives)
And, the problem is solved (nightly) with a
ratta-tat-tat.
Of course, mind your voltage, amperage, and other effects, or you'll have body parts stuck on the walls, racks, chairs, and lights. Talk about turning IT/server room into a chamber of horrors.
Use *ELECTRIFIED* steel wool. Better yet, use electrified, salted copper wool. It'll give them the whoolies when they become part victims in as(sau)lt and battery. All the following rats will hopefully learn to go away because they'll be inextricably charged in current events...
I say that if these events lately are "leaks", then they make diarrhea seem like mild perspiration... butt, then that's my assessment...
Besides, as stated elsewhere here, they are riding the free-press curve. And, bored tabloids and trade rags are chomping at the logs for something to spre... um publish.
Mean... "Do Not ASK!" As in, "We really cannot tell you this is a ruse by the various world government bodies to throw you off the track that it really is them, and that this is an extension of and a fallback to the untimely exposure of government AT&T affiliate offices that snooped traffic everywhere."
But, maybe my thinfoil hat is unpossibly tooned...
Or, you could make the room an insulated compartment, like on a ship. You'll need knee-knockers type doors. That is, pseudo air/watertight doors openings cut into the plate of the compartment. The rats shouldn't be able to climb or jump over the coaming. Wait, if they are genetically endowed, they just MIGHT leap 8 inches up.... i've had indications they were able to leap over stickies i laid down, so i had to lay extras in their landing path. That worked.
As for the cabling, you need stuffing tubes or solid stuffing and jacketing around the cabling. If it's all sufficiently high with nothing for them to claw up the walls with, then hopefully they won't get in.
If you have discretionary funding, you might want to get laser sweeps (the kind that take dimensions to measure tanks or large spaces) or something based on alarms (not talking about zapping them... if you cook them, it'll be messy as hell to clean up...). Tie it in with inert gas. I don't know that you could trip Halon without corroding the wires, destroying your gear, and being a potential life-safety issue, but some gas might be available for use after hours. Set it up so that during work hours, the delivery mechanism or discharge hose port is disengaged, and when you close up shop, shut the door and the safety tags drop into view as the attachments seal and are on stand-by. During working hours, have screens in place that they can't negotiate.
But, that's expensive. It may be cheaper to encase the servers and put stickies in perimeter defense of the equipment, but, it sounds like you tried that.
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was just a.... "minor" detail, or a "minor detail"...
Linux mylappy 2.6.27.10-desktop586-1mnb #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 10:40:00 EST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPUT2310 @ 1.46GHz GNU/Linux
That kernel works nicely for suspend to RAM. When used the generic Mandriva laptop kernel, suspend to disk and suspend to ram utterly failed. In my prev install of Mdva (2008.0), suspend to RAM worked, but not suspend to disk. I cannot recall which kernel i have on that disk boot of Mdv 2008.0
So, you may want to visit your repository, get all the updates, download numerous power managers so you can experiment, and then repatch/reupdate. It doesn't hurt, either, to download and install multiple kernels and check them out, desktop or laptop. Notice again that I'm using the Desktop kernel. Lately, however, Mandriva seems to be of the position that Desktop is just fine for laptops, and my lastnight's experience bears that out. So, i will remain on the Desktop kernel.
You might also -- if you are using the KDE4.1/Compiz and Plasma widgets -- want to be sure to get all the Plasma widgets for networking and KDE. After i did that i noticed some really nice notification tray icon activity/color-changing/flashing to alert me to port scanning, network status and so on. They look really nice.
Also, note: i did NOT do anything special with partitions such as designate anything for suspend to disk. That MIGHT be part of my problem. But, i don't mind suspend to RAM, since before i suspend, i save every changed file that i care about.
Oh, and yep, win vista resumes fine because while i suspend Mandriva, windows never (i think it never) really "suspends". I don't surf with it, so pretty much nothing wakes it up enough to provoke Mandriva to awaken. Even adding and removing USB devices, power... none of that wakes my laptop, so i am glad i read through virtually EVERY SINGLE FILE that i saw listed in PLF and Mdv's sites in my RPM manager. Regrettably, the descriptions are short, some often ludicrously useless in wording. But, at least great functionality becomes possible if all the right files are onboard.
You are so correct. I, too, suspend my Mandriva 2008.0 disk (5,400 RPM) which has vista running in VirtualBox. Suspend works like a charm.
However, in my Mandriva 2009.0 (with updates) disk (7,200 RPM) with VirtualBox, i still have to tweak things as Vbox and my image are probably still saying hello to each other.
But, what IS VERY NICE is that now, when i suspend Mandriva, it takes about 15 seconds to suspend, vice the previous longer time. On wakeup/resume, it's about 10 seconds, vs the previous near-boot-like time of over 40-50 seconds. This, all on Gateway P-6301 hardware with only 2 GB (it maxes out at 2GB) RAM. I give VirtualBox 1.5 GB of the total system RAM, and of that, 128 MB (the max VBox allows) for graphics RAM. That means Linux is down to about ~300 MB RAM, and it runs a far sight better with bells and whistles than Vista Home Premium does.
Let's see... And Win7 is essentially the UAC-toned/stripped, and OS-stripped-of-many-things to get it down to acceptable performance speeds (perceived or real), and i have all manner of servers, services, firewalls, and apps running in that 256 MB of RAM, but if I take Vista down to less than 1GB of RAM, with my drawings open, vista crawls....
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ummm but, i'd like to know WHERE they were operating. I'm thinking that they might have been using certain unnamed currents in undisclosed trenches to gain access to other operating areas. Not as if we're talking Deep Space 9 wormholes and other sci-fi shows' jump gates and such. It's possible (of course i cannot prove it) that some submarine topography (for you who are NOT bubbleheads and don't know there is more than one meaning to "submarine"....) allows submarines to just drift dead silent. As long as there are markers (beacons) or landmarks that can be passively triangulated on, then the CO knows when to spin up the thruster/s to break out of the current and therefore "disappear".
The GIUK "choke point" is an area where for decades the USN got to enjoy using its SOSUS network and unnamed and some unacknowledged upgrades to see any and everything that went through. Soviet AGIs (intelligence craft outfitted to look like trawlers/fishing boats) sometimes followed my former ship (USS Flint (AE-32), and i'm talking about 1986; our captain even came over the 1MC and talked about the AGI that was shadowing us, and i shot 2 (low-quality) pics myself) out of the area off SF because they thought we were helping boomers from Bremerton in the area standing by or fast attacks from overhaul at Mare Island to slip out into the deep sea. After all, an AE-26 class ammo ship is some 560 feet long, 82 or so wide, and about 24+ deep, and we could back then (if it were requred) somewhat mask a boomer with our noisy steam plant. But, even back then the USN subs were super quiet, but not nearly as quiet (if i read correct) as Akula or some other titanium hulls the Soviets built at great expense and outfitted with Toshiba/someother Japanese technology-based propeller milling machines that helped Soviet boats just "disappear" when the USN had enjoyed detection superiority over the "enemy".
Anyway, getting back to my earlier point, it's possible these two boats were unfortunately transiting a passage at the same time, and once they detected minute mechanical sounds realized that avoiding collision was more important then posturing for destroying another ship, given the current (from their perspective) DEFCON-equivalent situation. They might have even known exactly whose boat was outside just prior to the collision, since hull scraping might mask or make difficult for several seconds to minutes what hull they hit.
Sonar detection (i'm not talking just about the active pinging type, but also the conformal arrays, trailed wire/towed array systems, and the friendly buoys that might relay (broadcast, not directional transmission) intel) and intelligence gathering over the past 20+ years (aided by espionage by all parties) has enabled various navies to know not ONLY nation and class of boat, but the EXACT boat-- so long as it was previously detected and had no post-detection overhauls that would alter the signature... things such as modifying pipes or pumps or condensers and turbo generator sets, or even the "rafts" on which whole decks sat on(keep in mind that the hull at depth are under ENORMOUS pressure pers square inch and the hull therefore compresses, meaning it's not advantageous ot have decks directly welded to the tube but rather to the bulkheads-mounted shock and noise attenuating sound mounts...) which would either change acoustics, magnetic properties or other things.
But, if they were transiting almost in parallel, they might have had a shallow angle collision. I wouldn't imagine them head on in the same stream if the purpose was to be drifting. Even if the media report a head on collision, we have no reason to accept that as truth unless we had experts we trusted visit each hull, look at the navigation logs, and interpolate the evidence, which by now will be marked/classified secret or higher, or which will have been "sanitized for public consumption".
(Captch: "cremate")
One way to deal with their treacher is to make sure you watermark your uploaded photos. If they think they can take and sublicense your watermarked (with copyright info in the watermark), then it's time to FUCK them in court. They should ONLY ask for limited rights to subscribers'work ONLY for the purpose of making the site able to continue to work, NOT for farming for free any content USERS upload to share, privately or for advertising their hobby or business.
used will be able to learn not to chew on server room wires insulation...
How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables?
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/12/2115242
My Bouncing Betty Tesla Coils might help...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1126125&cid=26837909
Seems like the cable-cos are going to start trying to play the part of the Bug Bunny Roadrunner Hour.... They just LOVE to keep racing over the edge of the cliff... hehhehe...
targets, if i could get away with naming thoses two bastard patent trollers, i sure as hell would. Unfortunately, Al Qaeda would see that as only *helping* the USPTO situation...
Why is almost everyone (so far) fixating on BULLETS?
Hell, if I had an army or some resisting force being assaulted by troops in armor, i'd set up IEDs, nuts and bolts, flame-throwers, and bouncing betty-type combinations of devices. Neck, face and limb armor will negate ANY head and upper body armor. As long as you set up confusion, sheer horror, and profuse bleeding, any army will spend an inordinate amount of time collecting casualties for triage. At some point, body bags going home will (ideally) cause resistance to more bodies coming home.
Also, for close-quarter combat, IMPROVISE. Set up spring-loaded, stud-fitted poles at neck, chest and shin level. Anyone walking into those traps will be one un-pretty fucked up individual. If you are defending YOUR TURF, i don't give a damn what country you are from, you have EVERY RIGHT to whack the shit out of intruders, and, morally, i support you. The point of war and combat should be to reduce war and combat, not create blind or programmed "rah rah rah".
Besides, much armor can be a death trap if the shit set ablaze, and made useless if penetrated in a concentrated area more than once. Without field replacements, anyone shot more than 3 or 4 times has got to be asking the Dirty Harry question: "Do I feel LUCKY?"
But, nevermind all that. Napalm for up close and personal, and microwave cooking for out to 50 yards, and distributed cluster bombs for random psychological dissuasion. Hell, in Afghanistan, heavily booby-trapped fields became so untrustworthy and costly to clear that the British (IIRC, it was British) just paved their own way through farm land and only THEN did they trust the road's safety agains "insurgents".
I am hoping this armor is not being paid for out the the "stimulus" package. IBM has enough money that they should pay for it themselves and recoup costs on sales -- as long as the cost is not burdensome to the Taxpayers. Besides, this is probably going to turn out to be more for pacifying troops psychologically than to actually be protective. All protection is just some layer in a larger near-local system. Senses, sharing information, and choosing to avoid catastrophe can go a long way in obviating a dependency on armor. But, since people are going to follow orders rather than be shot for cowardice in the face of an enemy...
But, at first, when i read the OP/summary, i immediately flashed forward thinking this would be like Chobham armor, or some kind of reactive armor that predetonates just before impact, so as to lessen the shock to the person under the armor. But, the effects would be as disorienting from inside the armor as from outside.
It might look ludicrous, but maybe they should just run together under a huge, deflector shield -- everyone carrying/shouldering their 3 pounds of transparent Kevlar, with the dirt skirt about 5 inches above ground. Now, if they could just program the TKDS to match the surroundings, IBM might be on to a better product. Unfortunately, though, anyone getting a few frag grenades under that skirt will turn that TKDS into a "dome of doom" with all that shrapnel creating "Hamburger Helper". Once the death dome hits the ground and stops moving, the enemy would redirect fire to entomb the next set of rolly-pollies...
The troopers run in Big Blue's ARMOR
With glint and sprint each one's a CHARMER
In humid climes the suit's a WARMER
They are no match for pick-axe FARMER
Be brave and stout and dodge rounds nearby
A jig you dance cuz rounds fly on by
But whizz your pants-the round hit you guy
Oh now you know - bionics can fry
(there is a store-all in this more, and there's a moral to this story)
circuit...
A bolting child of Oh Big Blue,
Melting into a mound of goo,
Sizzling, hopping, and spewing doo,
Settling, calming, as flies go "OOOOH"
Guided, misguided into fire,
The circuit boards fry in the pyre,
A life whose fate is down to wire,
So NOW Big Blue what will you sire?
TUBULAR communications... I wonder if they will use real wires to guide the signal. A WHOLE new infrastructure project can be charge up...
Imagine the rat's nest of horrors to emerge from that... Our voices will sound like we emerged from my chamber of IT horrors... All together now:
skweee skweee squeee squeee
The new headquarters can be based at... "SHOCKCOM": Somnambulizing High Output Communications-Killing Civilians On Mass...
(Damn, dropped my crack bowl...)
HEHEHE... I suppose you have nobellium for grisly elements of decomposition...
It's kinda ironic: I almost had a galvanic response. It's not as if i told you to curium with erbium and eat em to get your carb(s)on. But, you know, to really get rid of those buggers, you have to cesium by the claws and cerium nice and good.
I guess -- out of some sense of noble thinking -- i periodically try to discharge a mass of polarizing outer ring, shell-shocking information. But, one way to dispose of the rats would be to continue to barium until they argon. Just be sure to clean your hands in the zinc, and don't let the director nickel and dime your budget to death. If the director wants to know what you did with the bodies, just say you sodium to the lowest-price bidder. As long as you don't discharge your duties in a hafnium manner, things will be a breeze.
That they'll miss out on their own version of the Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox?
"In the jurisdictions I know, breaking from jail by itself is NOT illegal, because pursuing freedom is a human right. However it is hardly possible to break out without committing a crime in the process (damage to property etc.). Caught fugitives can only be punished for these, and they get detention for the time out."
SERE: Survive, Escape, Resist, Evade
If troops are expected to do this when fighting on foreign soil, i suppose now i don't see why the incarcerated should not also hold themselves to this standard. Of course, troops trying to regain freedom to fight again or to return home will likely destroy property, take lives, cause pain somehow/somewhere...
I probably come off looking like a zealot, true. But, part of it is driven by the constant abuse by microsoft and other software vendors who just KEEP ON CONSUMING resources, as if to defeat Moore's Law.
I am running Win Vista inside of VirtualBox OSE. People seem to report VMs helping apps run faster than on native. one would expect that having heard this, ms of all software vendors would have (maybe they did this in w7?) virtualized windows even on native hardware just for the speed gains.
Someone else here mentioned being concerned that suspended machines might interfere with each other on resume/wake. I haven't had that problem. Admittedly, i've never run Linux inside windows, but i might for the sake of demoing to some Korean friends of mine looking to learn alternatives to windows.
But, it simply isn't fair for someone to have power to nail flamebait or troll on a comment if the comment lends itself to reproducibility. If anyone or enough people can attempt to reproduce my scenario and can refute, then more power to them. But, i am sick of slashdot not having a check/balances method of outing abusers who can't tolerate the fact that people will be emotionally charged with the relating of their own, undeniable personal experiences.
I am still wondering where the guy who troll-modded me is. The whole thread jesting ms' store plans probably has him/her in a thrombosis. Collectively, that thread is far more intense than what i wrote.
Well, at least i would get to say:
dRATS!
And, "Your BEST BUYS are ALWAYS at FRY's... GUARANteed..."
Then, we can all sing "Fly Robin Fly" and "Rat in the Kitchen"
Say, where's the UK guy who set up Linux-based web-cam surveillance in his home after being burgled several times. I bet someone could set up motion-tracking systems with a mesh floor. This could then reduce and concentrate electrical use only to the right grid...
Hit Grid 4-A.... "YOU SPANKED MY RATTLEship..." Or, steer the rats in an adjacent or diagonal set of grids and you have Connect Four...
And, if you're a Trekkie, add little doors and call them "Disintegration Chambers"... Or... RattleTraps.... they'll join the others on the other side of the "ExtraNet" / InterTubes...
What the smuck am i foking? Muthing Nan. I don't thoke anysming.
But, if you get the Habitrail going there'll be LOTS o smoke... Maybe vent it to your least favorite department. They can get the ITHantaVirus...
I bet they wish ALL this whole thread was marked 0, troll.
WHere is there troll-maker who zapped my ass yesterday, twice?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1125601&cid=26832913
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1124677&cid=26822197
Where is that cheerleading, anonymous coward?
Come out, come out, where ever you are...
Captcha: "sonata"
Don't forget to have plenty of Lysol on hand, because with all that arcing and sparking there will be a lot of hissin' and pissin'..
But, a cleaner way to deal with this is to hook up a bunch of Habitrails to the rooms. When the trap doors close, gas their asses, or, if you run electrified wires all inside the tubes, you can you can shock them into the age of the Intertubes, and transmit their doomed souls into the ether, semi-wirelessly. The ones caught 7 feet off the floor will be in nose-bleed city, with a spectacular view, bright lights, and euphoric gas before meeting doom.
Be sure to hook up a flushing system, and be sure your doper friends don't see this as a hyooge fuqin hooka system.
I say, set up some tripwires for the rats. Bait them with Ratkensteins, or Frankenrats and treats to eat.
When they are scurrying about in the dark, on the wire-mesh-gridded floor, one or more of them trigger/s the 25 or so hidden Tesla coils that pop up like Bouncing Betty grenades. Only, these go vertical with wires, and with dart tips, they affix to the ceiling, as zapping and humming set off a cascade of:
Sqweee-squeee-squee squee, Sqweee-squeee-squee squee (multiplied by how many are getting the charge of their lives)
And, the problem is solved (nightly) with a
ratta-tat-tat.
Of course, mind your voltage, amperage, and other effects, or you'll have body parts stuck on the walls, racks, chairs, and lights. Talk about turning IT/server room into a chamber of horrors.
ience.
Use *ELECTRIFIED* steel wool. Better yet, use electrified, salted copper wool. It'll give them the whoolies when they become part victims in as(sau)lt and battery. All the following rats will hopefully learn to go away because they'll be inextricably charged in current events...
Leaked my ass, hehehe.
I say that if these events lately are "leaks", then they make diarrhea seem like mild perspiration... butt, then that's my assessment...
Besides, as stated elsewhere here, they are riding the free-press curve. And, bored tabloids and trade rags are chomping at the logs for something to spre... um publish.
Mean... "Do Not ASK!" As in, "We really cannot tell you this is a ruse by the various world government bodies to throw you off the track that it really is them, and that this is an extension of and a fallback to the untimely exposure of government AT&T affiliate offices that snooped traffic everywhere."
But, maybe my thinfoil hat is unpossibly tooned...
in a block of amethyst.
Or, you could make the room an insulated compartment, like on a ship. You'll need knee-knockers type doors. That is, pseudo air/watertight doors openings cut into the plate of the compartment. The rats shouldn't be able to climb or jump over the coaming. Wait, if they are genetically endowed, they just MIGHT leap 8 inches up.... i've had indications they were able to leap over stickies i laid down, so i had to lay extras in their landing path. That worked.
As for the cabling, you need stuffing tubes or solid stuffing and jacketing around the cabling. If it's all sufficiently high with nothing for them to claw up the walls with, then hopefully they won't get in.
If you have discretionary funding, you might want to get laser sweeps (the kind that take dimensions to measure tanks or large spaces) or something based on alarms (not talking about zapping them... if you cook them, it'll be messy as hell to clean up...). Tie it in with inert gas. I don't know that you could trip Halon without corroding the wires, destroying your gear, and being a potential life-safety issue, but some gas might be available for use after hours. Set it up so that during work hours, the delivery mechanism or discharge hose port is disengaged, and when you close up shop, shut the door and the safety tags drop into view as the attachments seal and are on stand-by. During working hours, have screens in place that they can't negotiate.
But, that's expensive. It may be cheaper to encase the servers and put stickies in perimeter defense of the equipment, but, it sounds like you tried that.
was just a .... "minor" detail, or a "minor detail"...
uname -a on my machine produces:
Linux mylappy 2.6.27.10-desktop586-1mnb #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 10:40:00 EST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPUT2310 @ 1.46GHz GNU/Linux
That kernel works nicely for suspend to RAM. When used the generic Mandriva laptop kernel, suspend to disk and suspend to ram utterly failed. In my prev install of Mdva (2008.0), suspend to RAM worked, but not suspend to disk. I cannot recall which kernel i have on that disk boot of Mdv 2008.0
So, you may want to visit your repository, get all the updates, download numerous power managers so you can experiment, and then repatch/reupdate. It doesn't hurt, either, to download and install multiple kernels and check them out, desktop or laptop. Notice again that I'm using the Desktop kernel. Lately, however, Mandriva seems to be of the position that Desktop is just fine for laptops, and my lastnight's experience bears that out. So, i will remain on the Desktop kernel.
You might also -- if you are using the KDE4.1/Compiz and Plasma widgets -- want to be sure to get all the Plasma widgets for networking and KDE. After i did that i noticed some really nice notification tray icon activity/color-changing/flashing to alert me to port scanning, network status and so on. They look really nice.
Also, note: i did NOT do anything special with partitions such as designate anything for suspend to disk. That MIGHT be part of my problem. But, i don't mind suspend to RAM, since before i suspend, i save every changed file that i care about.
Oh, and yep, win vista resumes fine because while i suspend Mandriva, windows never (i think it never) really "suspends". I don't surf with it, so pretty much nothing wakes it up enough to provoke Mandriva to awaken. Even adding and removing USB devices, power... none of that wakes my laptop, so i am glad i read through virtually EVERY SINGLE FILE that i saw listed in PLF and Mdv's sites in my RPM manager. Regrettably, the descriptions are short, some often ludicrously useless in wording. But, at least great functionality becomes possible if all the right files are onboard.
GOOD LUCK!
You are so correct. I, too, suspend my Mandriva 2008.0 disk (5,400 RPM) which has vista running in VirtualBox. Suspend works like a charm.
However, in my Mandriva 2009.0 (with updates) disk (7,200 RPM) with VirtualBox, i still have to tweak things as Vbox and my image are probably still saying hello to each other.
But, what IS VERY NICE is that now, when i suspend Mandriva, it takes about 15 seconds to suspend, vice the previous longer time. On wakeup/resume, it's about 10 seconds, vs the previous near-boot-like time of over 40-50 seconds. This, all on Gateway P-6301 hardware with only 2 GB (it maxes out at 2GB) RAM. I give VirtualBox 1.5 GB of the total system RAM, and of that, 128 MB (the max VBox allows) for graphics RAM. That means Linux is down to about ~300 MB RAM, and it runs a far sight better with bells and whistles than Vista Home Premium does.
Let's see... And Win7 is essentially the UAC-toned/stripped, and OS-stripped-of-many-things to get it down to acceptable performance speeds (perceived or real), and i have all manner of servers, services, firewalls, and apps running in that 256 MB of RAM, but if I take Vista down to less than 1GB of RAM, with my drawings open, vista crawls....