Washington DC and its surrounding suburbs were one of the first localities to have centralized traffic light control systems, and by centralized, I mean *centralized*. Washington DC's system is also very old and up to a couple of years ago would fail on a regular basis (I believe it has been replaced). Like Montgomery County, the Washington DC system directly controlled all intersections. Faifax County's system is also centrally controlled but the main difference is that the traffic light sets are semi-autonomous. If they cannot contact the central system they use whatever the last schedule was up to seven days later (they are fully computerized and know the date and time and remember the signal patterns).
Furthermore, the clever design of the UK socket has caused one of the most common-sense safety feature for new parents, namely the outlet cover, to actually make the UK socket much more dangerous and deadly for children in many different subtle ways. Do not use outlet covers on UK sockets!
Is this why all my computers are suddenly telling me that these plugins are unstable and should be disabled? I was wondering why all of a sudden all my computers starting complaining about these add-ons.
To think of all the time wasted on the radio saying "double-ewe double-ewe double-ewe" on top of idiots calling them "backslash" instead of "slash," the web has eaten away hundreds of decades of man-hours each year.
The backups may be intact but from the old system. I would not hesitate to guess that Microsoft was migrating accounts to a new system that they developed, like they did with Hotmail. This time they may have really old backups on the old system and incomplete/unuseable backups on the new system and not an easy way to restore everyone's accounts without restoring them to something from several months ago.
I really don't think there is a cautionary tale here for technology. It is one for user behavior and the need for users to safeguard their own data.
This is why God invented ECC memory. Honestly, if I have to rebuild a Postgres database one more time I'm going to puke. Even with ECC memory, gamma-ray- and neutrino-induced ECC memory errors cause our generic x86 systems to corrupt memory, and thus corrupt my database. Half the time it corrupts the system table indices which are always kept as a memory-mapped file. Somehow it manages to corrupt the tables themselves. This is one of those things that the kids at Postgresql.org have no solution for.
My solution is either to use Sun hardware or an x86 server with a recognizable brand name on it with an equally recognizable brand name memory, but that simply cannot happen due to who and how our systems are procured.
Incidentally, I have syslogs full of successfully recovered ECC errors on Sun Solaris machines. Even the non-recoverable ones have not once induced a data loss. All we need to do in these cases is swap the memory module and all is well.
However, I do not have even ONE line of evidence of a recovered ECC memory error from ANY of our generic x86 Linux machines. All we need to do is restore the database from a backup. It's usually corrupted beyond repair.
Why does Google so often seem to discover things the rest of us already knew and write "whitepapers" about them like they've stumbled upon some big, new discovery?
I say to Google: next time give AOL or IBM a call before you publish.
I'm hoping the screen has improved enough to eliminate those annoying dead pixels. I avoided my new G1G1 XOPC after the novelty wore off because of the dead pixels in full-color mode. They don't appear in reflective mode. Why don't we pass a law that all laptops should have reflective mode?
This is all great, but how can I display my Gameboy Color on my television screen? These were in-store kiosks with the game boy somehow displaying its image both on the little screen and a television mounted on the kiosk.
Xtra Ordinary is not free. The author wants to make money from it. You can buy a flash card of the release or mail him a flash card for a reduced price. I have asked the author to provide a downloadable image but the request was refused. This can only mean one thing.
Yahoo already has Searchpad. Honestly, Yahoo's search results interface is chock full of features that people aren't noticing until someone like Google copies it.
This game was really awesome. Not to be confused with Activision's Starmaster--instead of a keypad that game used the black&white toggle switches for the extra controls.
As much as the world's stock of precious metals is being depleted by pseudoenvironmentalist hybrid drivers there will be alternatives. Remember when we all had to change our automotive refrigerants in the late 1980s and early 1990s? Even after the air conditioners were retooled we still found an alternative compound that works with the old R12 models.
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Get a portable device with a screen on it.
Use iPhone/iPod Touch Remote or VNC.
Then, buy a transmitter from here:
http://www.edmdesign.com/
Enjoy your music throughout your house and property.
Washington DC and its surrounding suburbs were one of the first localities to have centralized traffic light control systems, and by centralized, I mean *centralized*. Washington DC's system is also very old and up to a couple of years ago would fail on a regular basis (I believe it has been replaced). Like Montgomery County, the Washington DC system directly controlled all intersections.
Faifax County's system is also centrally controlled but the main difference is that the traffic light sets are semi-autonomous. If they cannot contact the central system they use whatever the last schedule was up to seven days later (they are fully computerized and know the date and time and remember the signal patterns).
GFCI on all lines? Not really. On unfinished basements, bathrooms, outdoors, and in garages, sure, but not every line.
Furthermore, the clever design of the UK socket has caused one of the most common-sense safety feature for new parents, namely the outlet cover, to actually make the UK socket much more dangerous and deadly for children in many different subtle ways.
Do not use outlet covers on UK sockets!
Please see this site: http://www.fatallyflawed.org.uk/
The Fedora Project seems to like it just fine enough for it to be the default starting with Fedora 11 back in April.
Have another look:
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4DefaultFs
It's the first post-major-centos-guy-went-awol-for-nine-months release of CentOS.
Get it now!
HOH boy yes I did miss something.
Sigh.
Does this have nothing to do with Sun ZFS? I hope I didn't miss something.
I nominate this comment for Best of Slashdot.
I actually had to look at the moderation score to get the joke.
Kriston
Is this why all my computers are suddenly telling me that these plugins are unstable and should be disabled? I was wondering why all of a sudden all my computers starting complaining about these add-ons.
To think of all the time wasted on the radio saying "double-ewe double-ewe double-ewe" on top of idiots calling them "backslash" instead of "slash," the web has eaten away hundreds of decades of man-hours each year.
The backups may be intact but from the old system.
I would not hesitate to guess that Microsoft was migrating accounts to a new system that they developed, like they did with Hotmail. This time they may have really old backups on the old system and incomplete/unuseable backups on the new system and not an easy way to restore everyone's accounts without restoring them to something from several months ago.
I really don't think there is a cautionary tale here for technology. It is one for user behavior and the need for users to safeguard their own data.
It's really simple. If you want to be like a phone company, then you need to follow the rules of a telephone company.
We should do this for The Thief and the Cobbler.
I call the toilet flushing scene!!
This is why God invented ECC memory.
Honestly, if I have to rebuild a Postgres database one more time I'm going to puke.
Even with ECC memory, gamma-ray- and neutrino-induced ECC memory errors cause our generic x86 systems to corrupt memory, and thus corrupt my database. Half the time it corrupts the system table indices which are always kept as a memory-mapped file. Somehow it manages to corrupt the tables themselves.
This is one of those things that the kids at Postgresql.org have no solution for.
My solution is either to use Sun hardware or an x86 server with a recognizable brand name on it with an equally recognizable brand name memory, but that simply cannot happen due to who and how our systems are procured.
Incidentally, I have syslogs full of successfully recovered ECC errors on Sun Solaris machines. Even the non-recoverable ones have not once induced a data loss. All we need to do in these cases is swap the memory module and all is well.
However, I do not have even ONE line of evidence of a recovered ECC memory error from ANY of our generic x86 Linux machines. All we need to do is restore the database from a backup. It's usually corrupted beyond repair.
Why does Google so often seem to discover things the rest of us already knew and write "whitepapers" about them like they've stumbled upon some big, new discovery?
I say to Google: next time give AOL or IBM a call before you publish.
I'm hoping the screen has improved enough to eliminate those annoying dead pixels.
I avoided my new G1G1 XOPC after the novelty wore off because of the dead pixels in full-color mode. They don't appear in reflective mode.
Why don't we pass a law that all laptops should have reflective mode?
The US Navy didn't give up on e-books.
The sheer mass of technical documentation required proper ballasting and demanded a solution.
What solution did they come up with?
You're soaking in it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML
.
This is all great, but how can I display my Gameboy Color on my television screen?
These were in-store kiosks with the game boy somehow displaying its image both on the little screen and a television mounted on the kiosk.
Xtra Ordinary is not free. The author wants to make money from it. You can buy a flash card of the release or mail him a flash card for a reduced price. I have asked the author to provide a downloadable image but the request was refused. This can only mean one thing.
Yahoo already has Searchpad. Honestly, Yahoo's search results interface is chock full of features that people aren't noticing until someone like Google copies it.
For those of you still hanging on:
http://www.amazon.com/C-COBOL-Programmers-Business-Approach/dp/0805316604/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253538164&sr=8-1
There *are* alternatives. It's going to happen.
Naturally I was referring to the Atari 2600 version of this excellent game.
This game was really awesome.
Not to be confused with Activision's Starmaster--instead of a keypad that game used the black&white toggle switches for the extra controls.
As much as the world's stock of precious metals is being depleted by pseudoenvironmentalist hybrid drivers there will be alternatives. Remember when we all had to change our automotive refrigerants in the late 1980s and early 1990s? Even after the air conditioners were retooled we still found an alternative compound that works with the old R12 models.