I looked at the specs, and it indeed only has a 10/100 port on it. Are there any hardware devices such as this that interface to USB mass storage devices that have 10/100/1000 ports?
Thanks for the explanation. Something to note about those control rods:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRAM
"In modern nuclear power plants, the control rods are lifted by electric motors against both their own weight and a powerful spring. A SCRAM rapidly (less than four seconds, by test) releases the control rods from those motors and allows their weight and the spring to drive them into the reactor core, thus halting the nuclear reaction as rapidly as possible. A typical large boiling water reactor will have 185 of these control rods. Modern naval nuclear power reactors have, in addition to scramming, the ability to automatically run the electric motors in reverse at high speeds for a few seconds, thus driving the rods into the core a short distance while leaving them latched to their motors. This "fast insertion" partially shuts down the reactor while leaving it ready to quickly restart--a consideration much more important in a warship than in a commercial power plant. (Also see Nuclear navy.)
Liquid neutron absorbers are also used in emergency shutdown systems. During SCRAM the operators can inject solutions containing neutron poisons directly into the reactor coolant. Various solutions, including sodium polyborate and gadolinium nitrate, are used. For example, Sizewell B has an Emergency Boration System (EBS), four large tanks of highly borated water, which can be run into the main Reactor Pressure Vessel by circuit pressure differences during pump-rundown."
The more you know =)
Didn't Xantrax used to be Trace Engineering? Them were fine inverters. Not only would they disconnect from the grid when they detected islanding, you could remotely monitoring the over serial (hopefully via IP one day) and they could be stacked to output 240VAC.
"Former ORNL researchers J. P. McBride, R. E. Moore, J. P. Witherspoon, and R. E. Blanco made this point in their article "Radiological Impact of Airborne Effluents of Coal and Nuclear Plants" in the December 8, 1978, issue of Science magazine. They concluded that Americans living near coal-fired power plants are exposed to higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants that meet government regulations. This ironic situation remains true today and is addressed in this article."
Actually, I myself used to live in downtown chicago and recently moved out to a small town in rural Illinois. I live 20 miles away from a nuclear power plant in Byron, IL and on clear days can see the two condenser stacks from the second story of my home.
I have no problem having a nuclear power plant in my "backyard", and would be more then happy if it was a fast breeder reactor that could continually burn it's fuel (as to have very little waste). If you want to get (cheap, less-polluting energy) you have to give (having production close by, being rational with regards to generation method).
Most people don't get that a coal-fired electical generation facility puts out more radiation then a nuclear power plant. Go figure.
My point is, I can do this because I have a GSM phone. I couldn't do this with a CDMA phone, such as a Verizon phone. Or a Nextel phone (tied to the iDEN network motorola helped them build).
True, only two providers in the US use GSM, but it's the universal standard outside of the US. When I go to Ireland, my T-mobile phone works simply by powering it up. When I went to the Caribbean a couple weeks ago, again, the phone worked with no problems (on 6 different islands mind you!). So, while everyone can gripe about EDGE not being true 3G (it really is only 2.5G) or the problems that GSM has, I'd rather have that then being Verizon or Sprint/Nextel's bitch and having a phone tied to only one provider. I also enjoy my phone working everywhere I go.
Depends on where it's burning and how much fuel there is to burn. I know labs that keep a brook handy to wave in areas that are prone to hydrogen fires.
The only thing that worries me about hydrogen is that it burns clear. You can't see the flame (unless there are impurities). You could walk right into the flame.
Thank you sir. I very much appreciate the advice. How do you suggest scrapping up turbine hours? Is multi-engine prop time the same as turbine time? Sorry for all the questions, I'm only 10 hours or so into my Student license, and hoping to get my Private my the end of March.
I've thought about that. True, I could ruin flying as my hobby and it would turn into just a paycheck. But if it ever got to that point, I would hopefully have planned financially to dump a shitty job and go work somewhere flying where I enjoy it, even if the pay is lower then I'm used to.
Have you just stopped looking for a gig? Or have you turned any gigs down? Just curious. I have a vauge idea what the job market is like in aviation, and while intimidating, I figure the worst thing that happens is that I stay in IT and get to build project planes at home as a hobby (I'd love to build a jet engine project plane).
Glad to hear you're close to your checkride! I figure aviation is far enough diversified from IT that if the sector crashes, I can still be gainfully employeed. I've investigated having aviation as a career, and it's tough. To be a pilot with Fedex, you need 1000 pilot in command turbine hours logged (turbine hours, not prop hours). So it's really who you know who can help you get up to those hours.
Good luck on the check ride.
P.S. I highly recommend joining AOPA. It's $30 for the first year, and provides some great learning and networking opportunites.
Here here my friend. I'm 24, and have been doing IT for 6 years. I made my hobby my job, and in search of a new hobby I began taking flying lessons. I hope one day to make it my new career. Then IT will be more fun again =)
It probably wouldn't mess you up that badly, but this competition required you not use the bathroom. So, you wouldn't die from too much water, but you'd damage your kidneys and urinary system pretty badly.
Agreed. While it's true that I would indeed do research before doing any contest, I would feel fairly safe competing in said contest if an organization was sponsoring it (unless they put out the disclaimer: YOU MAY BE HURT OR DIE AS A RESULT OF COMPETING IN THIS CONTENT).
If you're running time-sensitive applications/processes, your Domain Controller should be connected to a device to pull fairly accurate time (GSM module, GPS device, etc). Also, your clients should be using NTP, not SNTP. Very important differences. Check out Wikipedia for more info about pros and cons of both protocols.
Most likely, there are places near you that will recycle the bulbs. They already do this on a much larger scale for commercial/industrial users of tube flourecent bulbs. They'll be able to easily accomodate recycling of the waste generated by consumers.
To build on your idea, instead of a set path, they should roam intelligently based on the history of the utility network. Areas that have required more maintenence in the past should be passed over/inspected more often then those areas which have required less maintenence.
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I looked at the specs, and it indeed only has a 10/100 port on it. Are there any hardware devices such as this that interface to USB mass storage devices that have 10/100/1000 ports?
Thanks for the explanation. Something to note about those control rods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRAM "In modern nuclear power plants, the control rods are lifted by electric motors against both their own weight and a powerful spring. A SCRAM rapidly (less than four seconds, by test) releases the control rods from those motors and allows their weight and the spring to drive them into the reactor core, thus halting the nuclear reaction as rapidly as possible. A typical large boiling water reactor will have 185 of these control rods. Modern naval nuclear power reactors have, in addition to scramming, the ability to automatically run the electric motors in reverse at high speeds for a few seconds, thus driving the rods into the core a short distance while leaving them latched to their motors. This "fast insertion" partially shuts down the reactor while leaving it ready to quickly restart--a consideration much more important in a warship than in a commercial power plant. (Also see Nuclear navy.) Liquid neutron absorbers are also used in emergency shutdown systems. During SCRAM the operators can inject solutions containing neutron poisons directly into the reactor coolant. Various solutions, including sodium polyborate and gadolinium nitrate, are used. For example, Sizewell B has an Emergency Boration System (EBS), four large tanks of highly borated water, which can be run into the main Reactor Pressure Vessel by circuit pressure differences during pump-rundown." The more you know =)
This problem no longer exists with pebble-bed reactors, correct?
Didn't Xantrax used to be Trace Engineering? Them were fine inverters. Not only would they disconnect from the grid when they detected islanding, you could remotely monitoring the over serial (hopefully via IP one day) and they could be stacked to output 240VAC.
Wow. Since when are tons of Carbon Dioxide per kilowatt hour nothing?
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/ colmain.html
I have no problem having a nuclear power plant in my "backyard", and would be more then happy if it was a fast breeder reactor that could continually burn it's fuel (as to have very little waste). If you want to get (cheap, less-polluting energy) you have to give (having production close by, being rational with regards to generation method).
Most people don't get that a coal-fired electical generation facility puts out more radiation then a nuclear power plant. Go figure.
My point is, I can do this because I have a GSM phone. I couldn't do this with a CDMA phone, such as a Verizon phone. Or a Nextel phone (tied to the iDEN network motorola helped them build).
True, only two providers in the US use GSM, but it's the universal standard outside of the US. When I go to Ireland, my T-mobile phone works simply by powering it up. When I went to the Caribbean a couple weeks ago, again, the phone worked with no problems (on 6 different islands mind you!). So, while everyone can gripe about EDGE not being true 3G (it really is only 2.5G) or the problems that GSM has, I'd rather have that then being Verizon or Sprint/Nextel's bitch and having a phone tied to only one provider. I also enjoy my phone working everywhere I go.
Depends on where it's burning and how much fuel there is to burn. I know labs that keep a brook handy to wave in areas that are prone to hydrogen fires.
The only thing that worries me about hydrogen is that it burns clear. You can't see the flame (unless there are impurities). You could walk right into the flame.
Sorry to hear that. =( I hope you get to fly again when time permits.
Thank you sir. I very much appreciate the advice. How do you suggest scrapping up turbine hours? Is multi-engine prop time the same as turbine time? Sorry for all the questions, I'm only 10 hours or so into my Student license, and hoping to get my Private my the end of March.
I've thought about that. True, I could ruin flying as my hobby and it would turn into just a paycheck. But if it ever got to that point, I would hopefully have planned financially to dump a shitty job and go work somewhere flying where I enjoy it, even if the pay is lower then I'm used to.
Have you just stopped looking for a gig? Or have you turned any gigs down? Just curious. I have a vauge idea what the job market is like in aviation, and while intimidating, I figure the worst thing that happens is that I stay in IT and get to build project planes at home as a hobby (I'd love to build a jet engine project plane).
Good luck on the check ride.
P.S. I highly recommend joining AOPA. It's $30 for the first year, and provides some great learning and networking opportunites.
Here here my friend. I'm 24, and have been doing IT for 6 years. I made my hobby my job, and in search of a new hobby I began taking flying lessons. I hope one day to make it my new career. Then IT will be more fun again =)
It probably wouldn't mess you up that badly, but this competition required you not use the bathroom. So, you wouldn't die from too much water, but you'd damage your kidneys and urinary system pretty badly.
Can you point me to the big Bugzilla in the sky? Preferablly with me not having to die to submit change requests and bug fixes? =)
Agreed. While it's true that I would indeed do research before doing any contest, I would feel fairly safe competing in said contest if an organization was sponsoring it (unless they put out the disclaimer: YOU MAY BE HURT OR DIE AS A RESULT OF COMPETING IN THIS CONTENT).
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/updat eservices/default.mspx
That, along with proper scripting of "shutdown -r /m \\computername" should get you through it.
If you're running time-sensitive applications/processes, your Domain Controller should be connected to a device to pull fairly accurate time (GSM module, GPS device, etc). Also, your clients should be using NTP, not SNTP. Very important differences. Check out Wikipedia for more info about pros and cons of both protocols.
List of Companies Claiming to Recycle or Handle Spent Mercury Containing Lamps (last update May 2006)
Most likely, there are places near you that will recycle the bulbs. They already do this on a much larger scale for commercial/industrial users of tube flourecent bulbs. They'll be able to easily accomodate recycling of the waste generated by consumers.
To build on your idea, instead of a set path, they should roam intelligently based on the history of the utility network. Areas that have required more maintenence in the past should be passed over/inspected more often then those areas which have required less maintenence.