Muja powerstation (Collie, Western Australia), uses 4 Mt a year of coal which is 3 PPM uranium, so 12t a year of U either up the stack or into the residue. I don't know what the ash residue ratio is like, but if it's 0.1% that represents a 4000t heap in the back yard. So... NIMBY, it won't fit.
Meantime, a lot of radon and other stuff gets released in mining and AFAIK not accounted for.
GREETINGS, PROGRAMMER! YOU HAVE BEEN RECRUITED BY THE FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION TO DEFEND THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER AGAINST BILL AND THE MICROSOFT ARMADA. GET READY! PREPARE FOR BLAST-OFF!
We will fight them in the 'fridges, we will fight them in the microwaves, we will fight them in the sprinkler systems and the traffic lights! We will never surrender! (-:
So often I get asked "...and what sort of Windows do you use?"
Really, the word is being used as a synonym for OS, much like Xerox is used as a synonym for photocopier (and photocopying, if you're into verbing as much as the USA is), or Biro a synonym for ball-point pen (typically consistent for English, nobody says "biroing" to indicate writing with a ball-point pen).
You have to ask given this how many really mean "Windows" and how many mean "OS" or even "software" in general.
Imagine roads where 95% of all vehicles were Ladas. Think about how many people would refer to loading up the Lada for a holiday, or getting the Lada serviced, even if the were one of the few who drove a Peugeot.
find a decent mail solution, that has scheduling and can also deal with groupware aspects such as Project in a single package...I'm not talking about individual packages...I'm talking ONE package that works seamlessly.
If you look sharply at Exchange, you'll find that it really is a whole pile of separate apps, and the appearance of seamlessness is given by wrapping it in the administration tools very carefully.
I'm a Mac / Linux user at home (except when I pull up XP so I can play my video games).
...and more if any ports besides 25 are world-visible. (-:
PostFix does a lot less work generally than either SendMail or Exchange, so if I got to call any of the shots I'd start referring to a Linux (or *BSD, yadda yadda) as "the mail router" and sit PostFix in there to protect Exchange from spam, the internet in general, and overloads (you can set PostFix up to limit the send rate for "local" - ie bound for MSX - connections) on inbound mail separately, and also as a canary on outbound mail (chirp and/or drop dead if Exchange starts doing weird stuff). Once set up, the buffer box should be pretty much self-maintaining. I understand that qmail is good for this too, if a lot more baroque.
Calling it a "mail router" helps the PHBs to think of it as a low-cost appliance rather than a server which costs them $10k in hardware and $30k in software (plus a worshipful and increasingly specialised MCSE to keep the thing alive) like the Exchange box does.
Having the buffer box scrutinising inbound mail there will pre-solve many of your maintenance issue. For example, if the buffer box eats viruses and obvious spam, that'll about halve the Exchange box's load. When the next way to mailbomb Exchange is discovered, you can put a filter rule in PostFix to protect Exchange until you're absolutely dead sure that Microsoft's hotfix (when it eventually arrives as a lukewarmfix) doesn't break anything you need.
I've always been telling them to RTFM and just use scp like everyone else here, but they always cry and moan that they don't know how...
If they know how to use Windows Explorer, they know how to use WinSCP2. Point, click, drool. Of course, you can also use it for storing stuff besides porn.
There's quite a few books in that category. Forward's "Dragon's Egg" series or "Rocheworld" would be good for that; also many of Niven's, and while Weber's Honor Harrington would look pretty when reduced to film, I'm afraid no director would be able to resist the temptation to make such huge starships thunder instead of ghosting across the screen. OTOH, the Nostromo was done well in Aliens, especially the nice bit of scaling-to-context when Sigourney scuttled it.
Next, next, next: yes, they're just more self-installing packages; as with any competent Linux distro (except specialised ones), command-line is optional;
Does it Just Work(tm) almost all the time: yes;
does it misdetect the environment or otherwise fail to actually work on some hardware/OS combinations: it doesn't detect any hardware, and is targeted at generic Win32s, so if there is a problem with the environment, it follows that there is likely to be a problem with CygWin (put another way, if your Windows is in good shape, your CygWin will be too);
Does the Cygwin layer introduce an unacceptable speed hit on the OP's computer: In general, no. The X server is no speed daemon (you wouldn't be playing Quake through it) because it's converting X messages to GDI messages, but it's not atrocious either;
Do Cygwin, XFree86, and KDE take up gigabytes of disk space: possibly a gigabyte, all told, including KDevelop and stuff - how much room would any of the MS Visual products take up?
It seems to me that if Mansfield and Lauterbur deserve a solo (well, duo) Nobel, then a local lad who was recently killed in a light-plane crash (Harry Protoolis of Nautronix) deserves one for his work in sonar, which has carried the field forward as far as M&L's work carried NMR forward.
Not saying that their work was other than excellent, just that it was developmental rather than revolutionary. Radar and sonar had already covered a lot of the ground they needed.
It would also startle me if Damadian hadn't contributed more to their success than a surface reading suggests, since as well as making the original discovery he's been deeply involved in the electronics since then, built the first working MRI table, and currently builds the best that can be had. In other words, his developmental contribution almost certainly exceeds theirs, and he made the key discovery.
Variety is the spice of life. And I much prefer "working" to "fancy but broken".
Oddly enough, IE for the Mac (a completely different beast to IE for Windows) is about as close as you'll come to standards-compliant and feature-complete... BoC Microsoft is dumping that.
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...do usb.org have a "free for all" equivalent to the IANA reserved address space (192.168/16, 172.16/12, 10/8)?
# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 4242:2469/40 International Widget Sdn Bhd. FTL469 Hyper Communicator
#
It barely handles multiple devices at all.
After all, TWAIN is not SANE.
At least, not under Linux. No shortage of bandwidth on USB 2.0, and the USB software has no trouble handling a squillion cameras all at once.
Perhaps he's hoping to glue together enough webcams to get decent resolution? (-:
Muja powerstation (Collie, Western Australia), uses 4 Mt a year of coal which is 3 PPM uranium, so 12t a year of U either up the stack or into the residue. I don't know what the ash residue ratio is like, but if it's 0.1% that represents a 4000t heap in the back yard. So... NIMBY, it won't fit.
Meantime, a lot of radon and other stuff gets released in mining and AFAIK not accounted for.
Message for the OSS afficiondos out there:
So often I get asked "...and what sort of Windows do you use?"
Really, the word is being used as a synonym for OS, much like Xerox is used as a synonym for photocopier (and photocopying, if you're into verbing as much as the USA is), or Biro a synonym for ball-point pen (typically consistent for English, nobody says "biroing" to indicate writing with a ball-point pen).
You have to ask given this how many really mean "Windows" and how many mean "OS" or even "software" in general.
Imagine roads where 95% of all vehicles were Ladas. Think about how many people would refer to loading up the Lada for a holiday, or getting the Lada serviced, even if the were one of the few who drove a Peugeot.
...like this one.
...but now I wouldn't be so sure.
This one's cutting your stuff with something *s*c*a*r*y*.
...per$ua$ively.
If you look sharply at Exchange, you'll find that it really is a whole pile of separate apps, and the appearance of seamlessness is given by wrapping it in the administration tools very carefully.
Try AdvanceMAME, you'll never look back. (-:
PostFix does a lot less work generally than either SendMail or Exchange, so if I got to call any of the shots I'd start referring to a Linux (or *BSD, yadda yadda) as "the mail router" and sit PostFix in there to protect Exchange from spam, the internet in general, and overloads (you can set PostFix up to limit the send rate for "local" - ie bound for MSX - connections) on inbound mail separately, and also as a canary on outbound mail (chirp and/or drop dead if Exchange starts doing weird stuff). Once set up, the buffer box should be pretty much self-maintaining. I understand that qmail is good for this too, if a lot more baroque.
Calling it a "mail router" helps the PHBs to think of it as a low-cost appliance rather than a server which costs them $10k in hardware and $30k in software (plus a worshipful and increasingly specialised MCSE to keep the thing alive) like the Exchange box does.
Having the buffer box scrutinising inbound mail there will pre-solve many of your maintenance issue. For example, if the buffer box eats viruses and obvious spam, that'll about halve the Exchange box's load. When the next way to mailbomb Exchange is discovered, you can put a filter rule in PostFix to protect Exchange until you're absolutely dead sure that Microsoft's hotfix (when it eventually arrives as a lukewarmfix) doesn't break anything you need.
...his personal desktop. "It's good to be da king!" (-:
Just eyeing off your username now and wonderig why I should take you seriously...
Especially if you're a Pom, where the word for the clothing you were thinking of is "trousers", but "pants" brings lingerie to mind.
If they know how to use Windows Explorer, they know how to use WinSCP2. Point, click, drool. Of course, you can also use it for storing stuff besides porn.
Optimist. (-:
There's quite a few books in that category. Forward's "Dragon's Egg" series or "Rocheworld" would be good for that; also many of Niven's, and while Weber's Honor Harrington would look pretty when reduced to film, I'm afraid no director would be able to resist the temptation to make such huge starships thunder instead of ghosting across the screen. OTOH, the Nostromo was done well in Aliens, especially the nice bit of scaling-to-context when Sigourney scuttled it.
It seems to me that if Mansfield and Lauterbur deserve a solo (well, duo) Nobel, then a local lad who was recently killed in a light-plane crash (Harry Protoolis of Nautronix) deserves one for his work in sonar, which has carried the field forward as far as M&L's work carried NMR forward.
Not saying that their work was other than excellent, just that it was developmental rather than revolutionary. Radar and sonar had already covered a lot of the ground they needed.
It would also startle me if Damadian hadn't contributed more to their success than a surface reading suggests, since as well as making the original discovery he's been deeply involved in the electronics since then, built the first working MRI table, and currently builds the best that can be had. In other words, his developmental contribution almost certainly exceeds theirs, and he made the key discovery.
Not that IE for Windows is so much better at SSL/TLS anyway. (-:
Mind you, the reports are confusing enough that anything's possible.
So the new FOSS evangelism tactic is:
Your alternative proposal is not realistic. Naturally.
Variety is the spice of life. And I much prefer "working" to "fancy but broken".
Oddly enough, IE for the Mac (a completely different beast to IE for Windows) is about as close as you'll come to standards-compliant and feature-complete... BoC Microsoft is dumping that.
And it will solve his problem. It's not as if I'm recommending that he VNC to a Linux box, now, is it Mr Smartypants?