Also, there are no Shuttles ready that could boost the orbit either, so the Russians are the ONLY method right now. I'm not sure how fast the Russians can send up another Progess if the one currently docked can't get the job done. This IS a serious risk to the station and crew, but it's not panic time.
Using the Progress is only one way to do it, they could always fire the engines on the Zvezda Service Module
There is an obvious problem with the Progress, but I think they only use the Progress reboost because otherwise it's propellant (used to rendezvous, dock and de-orbit) is wasted. The Progress refuels the SM from seperate tanks.
9 years ago I had a summer job at a semi-conductor factory, midway through my education. They issued everyone with a keyfob sized tag that you had to wave past a sensor before the gate from the car park would open to let you on/off site.
All i thought it did was erode the possibility of skiving off an hour early on a friday...
Take note, US school kids - when you get a job you'll probably have some sort of similar system to monitor when you 'punch in/punch out'
Also, seeing as you lot seem to take guns to school and kill each other from time to time, I'm not surprised the cops want to keep tabs...
The battery life on my 3G iPod is starting to get a bit low. I hope when I get a replacement battery kit I don't accidentally kill my iPod and have to go get one of those iPod mini's....
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According to the front page of mozilla.org, Firefox 1.0 was released on the 8th. Lucky for me I got it before the BBC and Slashdot noticed.....
Can anyone remember the last mozilla build to use the red star icon??? I want to extract the icon from the.exe file to change the icon on my shortcut...
Why won't it be approved - it's been in beta for *ages*. That's a clue for sysadmins to stop reading other peoples email and start integration testing in their organization.
I've tested the RC's with our product (I'm a tester), so the final release of XP SP2 isn't a shocker - we know the implications of running our product on it....
It was a big, scary sunspot on July 23rd. SpaceWeather.com are currently reporting: Sunspot 652 is decaying, but it still has a "beta-gamma-delta" magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares. And it's not pointing at Earth anymore, it's on the right limb of the Sun.
IT staff who are have a clue will have been testing with the RC1 and RC2 releases of SP2 that have been publicly downloadable from MS for a few months.
sasser exploits a vulnerability in lsass.exe, which listens on 445. Some software firewalls leave this open, as it is required for Active Directory logins under some circumstances. If you do that and then go straight to windows update you should be fine.
How many key services of the society must be crippled before those in charge start to realize that Microsoft, while pleasing to the eyes and well marketed, just isn't suitable for anything that matters.
It's not just the software (It ceartinly doesn't help that it's full of holes), it's bad implementation - if you're stupid enough to connect a box directly to the internet, you deserve everything that's coming to you.
Linux & *BSD users can be smug here, as they are secure out of the box. Windows 2K & XP include a no-frills firewall, it's just not enabled by default...
If you bothered to do some research, you'd have found out it's a US Air Force project to provide boost phase intercept missile defense. Take a look here.
No. If another one fails they switch over to thruster orientation by the Russian built modules (the FGB and SM). These consume fuel, but that's resupplied by progress flights.
Man if you can't find a way to do it on Google, it probably can't be done.
Idiot. That assumes someone bothered to write a web page about air core transformer theory. It is dangerous to assume that all human knowledge is on the web, and that google has indexed it.
I did some transformer theory stuff when i was studying for my HND. Go buy to a library and borrow a book on Electrical Engineering. Its how people did research before the friggin net came along
In the UK, the supplier owns the service fuse and the meter, the customer owns everything connected to the other side of the meter. The max current you can draw is the rating of the service fuse (typically 100A). Large buildings have a 3 phase supply which means you can spread the load across the 3 phases (so you get 300A)
TryMicroDevNet which is a developer orientated site for J2ME, but only provides links to the authors web site for listed apps. (and you have to be a member..)
Another one is Midlet.org, but I've been mailing the site admin for 2 months trying to get a J2ME RSS reader I wrote posted on the site, with no reply. The downloads look like they were last updated on Jan 23rd and there is a fairly lively forum. You can download via wap at http://midlet.org/wap
Show times for the cinemas I live near (Orange's main site), Weather reports for climbing (wap.ukclimbing.com), News headlines (Orange and wap.yahoo.co.uk), Whats's on TV (wap.thecustard.tv) Finding out what's on in clubs, etc. when I'm out (ents24.com), Finding out where I can get a taxi/curry/cash machine after I've been out(wap.upmystreet.com).
And this weekend (in a pub) I found the correct settings for Vodafone GPRS by using wap.google.com so I could send an MMS picture message to a friend who'd got the settings screwed up on his phone.
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sounds like a productive beta test. end users finding lots of bugs.
(anyone who would use it - or anything else beta - in a production environment is insane)
Also, there are no Shuttles ready that could boost the orbit either, so the Russians are the ONLY method right now. I'm not sure how fast the Russians can send up another Progess if the one currently docked can't get the job done. This IS a serious risk to the station and crew, but it's not panic time.
Using the Progress is only one way to do it, they could always fire the engines on the Zvezda Service Module
There is an obvious problem with the Progress, but I think they only use the Progress reboost because otherwise it's propellant (used to rendezvous, dock and de-orbit) is wasted. The Progress refuels the SM from seperate tanks.
You mean being racist?
erosion of essential freedom?
9 years ago I had a summer job at a semi-conductor factory, midway through my education. They issued everyone with a keyfob sized tag that you had to wave past a sensor before the gate from the car park would open to let you on/off site.
All i thought it did was erode the possibility of skiving off an hour early on a friday...
Take note, US school kids - when you get a job you'll probably have some sort of similar system to monitor when you 'punch in/punch out'
Also, seeing as you lot seem to take guns to school and kill each other from time to time, I'm not surprised the cops want to keep tabs...
Amen to that!
The battery life on my 3G iPod is starting to get a bit low. I hope when I get a replacement battery kit I don't accidentally kill my iPod and have to go get one of those iPod mini's....
According to the front page of mozilla.org, Firefox 1.0 was released on the 8th. Lucky for me I got it before the BBC and Slashdot noticed.....
Can anyone remember the last mozilla build to use the red star icon??? .exe file to change the icon on my shortcut...
I want to extract the icon from the
Why won't it be approved - it's been in beta for *ages*. That's a clue for sysadmins to stop reading other peoples email and start integration testing in their organization.
I've tested the RC's with our product (I'm a tester), so the final release of XP SP2 isn't a shocker - we know the implications of running our product on it....
It was a big, scary sunspot on July 23rd. SpaceWeather.com are currently reporting: Sunspot 652 is decaying, but it still has a "beta-gamma-delta" magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares. And it's not pointing at Earth anymore, it's on the right limb of the Sun.
IT staff who are have a clue will have been testing with the RC1 and RC2 releases of SP2 that have been publicly downloadable from MS for a few months.
I've written one. Have a look here
dunno about OpenBSD, but the UltraSPARC processor supports it (and that's really old). FYI it's enabled by adding:
/etc/system
set noexec_user_stack=1
set noexec_user_stack_log=1
into
The NX flag was only announced 18th March, so I'd say that was 'quickly', not 'finally'. It only made it into Linux 20 days ago
sasser exploits a vulnerability in lsass.exe, which listens on 445. Some software firewalls leave this open, as it is required for Active Directory logins under some circumstances. If you do that and then go straight to windows update you should be fine.
I would have thought most people who want to play this game would have bought the Windows version.
How many die hard Linux users are there who wait until games are ported to Linux before buying them?
How many key services of the society must be crippled before those in charge start to realize that Microsoft, while pleasing to the eyes and well marketed, just isn't suitable for anything that matters.
It's not just the software (It ceartinly doesn't help that it's full of holes), it's bad implementation - if you're stupid enough to connect a box directly to the internet, you deserve everything that's coming to you.
Linux & *BSD users can be smug here, as they are secure out of the box. Windows 2K & XP include a no-frills firewall, it's just not enabled by default...
It looks like it exploits LSASS.EXE by scanning for a listening port 445. Good job I've got all incoming blocked by default.
Roll on XP SP2 with the firewall on by default for everyone, then hopefully things like this will go away....
If you bothered to do some research, you'd have found out it's a US Air Force project to provide boost phase intercept missile defense. Take a look here.
No. If another one fails they switch over to thruster orientation by the Russian built modules (the FGB and SM). These consume fuel, but that's resupplied by progress flights.
Man if you can't find a way to do it on Google, it probably can't be done.
Idiot. That assumes someone bothered to write a web page about air core transformer theory. It is dangerous to assume that all human knowledge is on the web, and that google has indexed it.
I did some transformer theory stuff when i was studying for my HND. Go buy to a library and borrow a book on Electrical Engineering. Its how people did research before the friggin net came along
I don't feel the need to go comitting random acts of petty sabotage on office equipment on April 1st.
And I *hate* the way some people take it to extremes, say, for example a news site posting random garbage all day.
Far better to pull one prank really well, than 100 really badly.
Are you 14 years old again? It's not the playground.
And I suspose we'll have to suffer all the fake stories on slashdot again. yawn.
In the UK, the supplier owns the service fuse and the meter, the customer owns everything connected to the other side of the meter. The max current you can draw is the rating of the service fuse (typically 100A). Large buildings have a 3 phase supply which means you can spread the load across the 3 phases (so you get 300A)
TryMicroDevNet which is a developer orientated site for J2ME, but only provides links to the authors web site for listed apps. (and you have to be a member..)
Another one is Midlet.org, but I've been mailing the site admin for 2 months trying to get a J2ME RSS reader I wrote posted on the site, with no reply. The downloads look like they were last updated on Jan 23rd and there is a fairly lively forum.
You can download via wap at http://midlet.org/wap
Show times for the cinemas I live near (Orange's main site),
Weather reports for climbing (wap.ukclimbing.com),
News headlines (Orange and wap.yahoo.co.uk),
Whats's on TV (wap.thecustard.tv)
Finding out what's on in clubs, etc. when I'm out (ents24.com),
Finding out where I can get a taxi/curry/cash machine after I've been out(wap.upmystreet.com).
And this weekend (in a pub) I found the correct settings for Vodafone GPRS by using wap.google.com so I could send an MMS picture message to a friend who'd got the settings screwed up on his phone.