Try to avoid any light for half an hour - your eyes only become fully night adapted after 30 mins or so, and you'll see finer details after this occurs
Use dim red lights if you need to find lost children, etc
Logan's Run would make a great darkly paranoid reboot. It would be a nice commentary on the cult of youth / ageism and disposability that seems prevalent in western culture at the moment.
I was thinking about the previous recommendation of Iain M Banks' Culture novels, but they'd just fuck them up and ruin some great reading:-(
"Expensive" LiPo batteries? You don't know what you're talking about, check the prices at www.hobbyking.com and I think you'll be surprised how cheap they have become in the last year.
As with most LiPo powered RC gear, just buy multiple sets of batteries and a good balancing charger.
"Now exists, hypostatized out of a past (which stops existing when it stops being now) and which in turn hypostatizes the future (which does not exist.)"
Or, as I like to put it, today is tomorrow yesterday.
Greg Bear's Forge of God and Anvil of Stars books cover this too. Basically, civilisations that don't learn to shield emissions early on in their development attract von Neumann machines that pre-emptively attack noisy civilisations before they become interstellar. There's a galactic organisation that tries to rescue targeted civilisations, and punish the makers of the probes. FoG covers the Earth getting destroyed (no spoiler necessary, the cover depicts Earth going boom) and Anvil follows Earth's children as they are guided on a mission of revenge - great books, IMHO.
I've struggled with depression in the past. One night I ended up getting as far as putting a length of hose into the car's exhaust and through the car window.
The perverse thing was, the realisation that I could end my suffering any time I wanted actually saved me. Knowing that I had options removed the feeling that life was a never-ending shit sandwich, and gave me a sense of control over my life.
That was several years ago, and whilst I still (very infrequently) have black days, knowing they are transient is a huge help. The world doesn't change, just how I perceive and react to it. Keeping that in mind is key for me, and allows me to break the iterative spiral before it drags me under.
Anyhow, I just wanted to reinforce and agree with your,and the parents, comments - a lot of people get that feeling of relief and still go through with it. Tidying up is another classic symptom - no-one wants to be remembered as a slob!
So when you need to reboot your POS Windows print spooler, you take down all the other services too? Visualise and separate out services - to a certain extent.
With a cluster of VM hosts you get hardware redundancy across all VMs. Running multiple VMs on one host is cheap and efficient, but it's too all-your-eggs-in-one-basket for me.
If your existing physical servers are buckling under the load, initially you can P2V your existing servers and run them as VMs on your hosts. That way you get a pain free hardware upgrade. Then plan for separation of services and rationalising the number of DB servers, etc. Of course you have to balance the cost of server an VM licences against the benefits of distributing servers (assuming Windows and VMWare here).
As usual, it's a trade off between cost, risk and functionality.
Just wait until you master a Tolkien ring. As is typical with network infrastructure, pretty soon you get taken for granted - people used to talk about me like I wasn't even there!
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Or as Thom Yorke put it in There There, "Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean its there"
Try to avoid any light for half an hour - your eyes only become fully night adapted after 30 mins or so, and you'll see finer details after this occurs
Use dim red lights if you need to find lost children, etc
If you're worried about child processes, you could try a back door attack ;-)
Since we're trading archetypical insults...
That's a low blow, or as we like to say over here, a bit of an underarm bowl.
Logan's Run would make a great darkly paranoid reboot.
It would be a nice commentary on the cult of youth / ageism and disposability that seems prevalent in western culture at the moment.
I was thinking about the previous recommendation of Iain M Banks' Culture novels, but they'd just fuck them up and ruin some great reading :-(
"we're not talking about some strange, obscure cult here..."
No, we're talking about a fucking huge stange cult.
"Expensive" LiPo batteries? You don't know what you're talking about, check the prices at www.hobbyking.com and I think you'll be surprised how cheap they have become in the last year.
As with most LiPo powered RC gear, just buy multiple sets of batteries and a good balancing charger.
"A shame that Cameron didn't take a more original story and risk it like Star Wars."
Excuse me, Star Wars was an original story??? There's a mash up of stolen ideas, if I ever saw one.
"It's the fastest scripting language around"
Until you have to run it on something...
"The results have just been published in Nano Letters."
I'm guessing that'd be a Times New Roman 0.0000001 pt font then? Damn, I left my scanning electron reading glasses at home today.
Apparently you don't know the bird is the word.
Wait until the LHC produces a black hole. Then you'll see some real suck.
"To put this in perspective, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle program cost $5.6b, and the resulting machine sucks."
"I don't want the same label as the intern who fixes windoze"
That strikes me as a little condescending. Working helldesk well requires a special skill set.Try it yourself for a few weeks and see how you go.
"Now exists, hypostatized out of a past (which stops existing when it stops being now) and which in turn hypostatizes the future (which does not exist.)"
Or, as I like to put it, today is tomorrow yesterday.
Northrop Grumman PM: "So, let's talk about backup requirements"
Virginia State Pointy Haired Boss: "But the SAN's RAID, isn't it? We'll be fine"
"...but directional signals degrade less slowly"
[pedant] Hang on, doesn't less slowly = faster? [/pedant}
Greg Bear's Forge of God and Anvil of Stars books cover this too. Basically, civilisations that don't learn to shield emissions early on in their development attract von Neumann machines that pre-emptively attack noisy civilisations before they become interstellar. There's a galactic organisation that tries to rescue targeted civilisations, and punish the makers of the probes.
FoG covers the Earth getting destroyed (no spoiler necessary, the cover depicts Earth going boom) and Anvil follows Earth's children as they are guided on a mission of revenge - great books, IMHO.
Will it blend?
I've struggled with depression in the past. One night I ended up getting as far as putting a length of hose into the car's exhaust and through the car window.
The perverse thing was, the realisation that I could end my suffering any time I wanted actually saved me. Knowing that I had options removed the feeling that life was a never-ending shit sandwich, and gave me a sense of control over my life.
That was several years ago, and whilst I still (very infrequently) have black days, knowing they are transient is a huge help. The world doesn't change, just how I perceive and react to it. Keeping that in mind is key for me, and allows me to break the iterative spiral before it drags me under.
Anyhow, I just wanted to reinforce and agree with your ,and the parents, comments - a lot of people get that feeling of relief and still go through with it. Tidying up is another classic symptom - no-one wants to be remembered as a slob!
Being inexperienced, asking the right questions, learning and planning carefully != having no clue.
If we all followed your line of reasoning, we'd all stay in our comfort zone and never grow our skills.
So when you need to reboot your POS Windows print spooler, you take down all the other services too? Visualise and separate out services - to a certain extent.
With a cluster of VM hosts you get hardware redundancy across all VMs. Running multiple VMs on one host is cheap and efficient, but it's too all-your-eggs-in-one-basket for me.
If your existing physical servers are buckling under the load, initially you can P2V your existing servers and run them as VMs on your hosts. That way you get a pain free hardware upgrade. Then plan for separation of services and rationalising the number of DB servers, etc. Of course you have to balance the cost of server an VM licences against the benefits of distributing servers (assuming Windows and VMWare here).
As usual, it's a trade off between cost, risk and functionality.
No need for a Windows Deployment server, we're using Fog with great results.
http://www.fogproject.org/
"Erasure sounds just fine at 192"
That's strange, I find Erasure sounds like crap in any format
I'm sorry, allow me to attenuate my portentousness .
I fired up an Amiga 500 emulator the other day and played Populous. I can't believe I spent a few months immersed in that game!
Just wait until you master a Tolkien ring. As is typical with network infrastructure, pretty soon you get taken for granted - people used to talk about me like I wasn't even there!