This is correct, although the Qube didn't do NAS (by default). Just SMB for Windows (and an old Samba that didn't do PDC/ACL etc) and netatalk for Macs.
FYI, Sun released the Qube and RaQ 550 OS under BSD license (the parts that weren't already GPL etc) last year. You can find it at http://open.cobaltqube.org/. There's a new group working to put it on generic Linux boxes, called BlueQuartz.
Sounds like all the errands we would send n00bs on in the Navy when we were bored during a deployment.
We sent one guy from the engine room down to the corpsman's office for 10 feet of Fallopian tube. There was also sending them up to see the bos'ns for buckets of prop wash. Or ordering steam blankets from supply (for those who may not know, a steam blanket is actually the process of laying up an offline boiler with steam from another source - prevents corrosion). Or getting batteries for the sound powered phones. Or going to the yeoman for a 1D-10T form (there was also a PU-55/Y form but we had to be careful about that one).
One of the best ones was the 'sea bat'... we were underway on a Med cruise in the summer of '93. Close to sundown, word went around on the messdeck that someone had actually caught a sea bat up in the helo hangar. The n00bs went running up, and were let in one at a time to see a cardboard box upside down on the deck, with a bunch of guys standing around it in a circle.
The new guy would be told that he couldn't just pick the box up as the bat would get away, so he had to bend over and pick up the edge a little and peek at it that way. As soon as he bent over, another guy would belt him across the ass with a broom. Get it? Har har... well, one dufus actually said "Hey quit it - I'm trying to look at the bat, and you're going to make me let him loose!" That dumb fucker took about 7 or 8 hits on the ass before he finally got the joke.
Another totally hilarious one, that our XO was in on - he loved to play jokes, was "mail buoy watch"... there were actually people who could be convinced that we got our mail onboard by leaning over the bow at a predetermined location with a boat hook and snagging a bag off a buoy floating there, like the old Pony Express or something... so some poor dumb SOB would be assigned the midwatch (midnight to 4am), and be sent up on the fo'c'sle in full battle dress, kapok, helmet, phones, etc - with a boathook and some binoculars. The bridge would call down every so often and tell him to keep watching... eventually they'd let him in on the joke, and a good laugh would be had by all.
Well one guy thought he was so smart - he'd heard about the ruse when in boot camp. So he decided to sleep in and not do his watch. That would have ruined our fun, so we got the postal clerk on board to give us an official mail bag, and we soaked it in salt water, tore up some paper, and slashed the bag up with a knife. We then went to the aforementioned SOB's rack and threw open the curtains, throwing the bag on his head and yelling at him about how f-ed up he was for blowing his watch, and now we ran over the damn buoy and the bag got shredded in the prop.
The look of horror on his face was priceless... "I thought that it was just a gag!" We said hell no it's no gag, and now we've got no mail, and the XO wanted to see him in his dress uniform ASAP.
So the guy gets out his dress blues and heads up to the XOs stateroom (at 0200 or so). The XO chews him out for a few minutes about obeying his leading petty office even if he thinks it's bullshit, etc. The guy got quite a bit of kidding the next day at breakfast...
The only people who acutally use reverse osmosis for desalinization is steam power plants.
Actually the opposite is more likely. If you're generating/using steam, evaps make the most sense as you've already got a heat source that can be used "directly" to flash more water into steam. Reverse osmosis makes sense if you have a non-heat producing source of power - e.g., you're bringing in electricity off the grid to run pumps that push water through the membranes.
I spent six years as a Gas Turbine technician in the Navy. The majority of them, and all the older steam-powered ships, use evaporators to generate fresh water. I'm not sure about the nukes, but since they produce a crapload of steam to drive the turbines to make electricity, I'm betting they use evaps too.
The main source of heat for the evaps on the turbine ships are the "waste heat boilers" powered by the exhaust of the electric generators (3 Allison 501-K17s on the Ticonderoga cruisers for example). The ultra-pure boiler feedwater used to make more steam for the heat exchangers is produced through evaporation. In other parts of the system, bromine is added to the distilled water, making it into potable water for drinking, etc.
I think there are some ships (the new Arleigh Burke destroyers, and maybe the nuke carriers) that use reverse osmosis - far fewer maintenance headaches than you have tinkering with boiler water chemistry, heat exchangers, etc. Just replace the membranes as needed, and have a good "dirty side" flushing system - if the feed pump is a high enough capacity, a good chunk of the "clean side" water can be used to flush the crud...
Also, ships at have relatively clean water they are starting with - a desal plant close to shore would have a lot nastier stuff to have to filter out, which would require more frequent membrane changes, more $$...
I would hope that nobody is going to build a standalone desal plant. Having desal as a byproduct of electricity generation, especially a multi-fuel (diesel, LNG, methane, even powdered coal is possible now) cogeneration (thus the "co" in cogeneration - use the 'waste heat' to do something besides heat the atmosphere) plant, makes the most sense...
Increasing treatment plants makes the most sense to me, though. You're already starting with "fresh" water... Although at least here in San Diego, the people who don't understand the technology keep getting initiatives to build more treatment plants shot down by using a negative "toilet to tap" campaign...
Most emergency vehicles l have those infrared signal beamer thingies (and yes, that's the technical term for them!) that tell traffic lights to turn (or stay) green...
They've been in the news recently as they are now available over the internet (albeit illegally); possession of one would render these "smart lights" moot... (and just to be a token grammar Nazi, notice I did *not* say "mute"!)
Yes! IANAA (accountant), but I've always thought that a flat tax would be the way to go... the hard part would be determining the correct percentage to charge, and which transactions would be charged (just pay, or interest and dividends, etc).
But no more whining from anyone about the different brackets, no more ways to "cheat", etc. It would simplify and reduce costs at the gov't level, at the payroll level for businesses, etc.
The only people that would be against it would probably be all the tax accountants... and the democrats wouldn't have their red herring complaint about "tax cuts for the wealthy" anymore...
As this specific ship is a research platform, I'm not sure what they have in the way of "standard issue" gear. But on the AEGIS cruiser I was on, the quartermasters all routinely performed "old style" navigation skills using sextants, etc. (obviously as backups to the electronic systems)...
Here's a list of the QMs responsibilities (note - I was a "lowly" snipe, but did earn my Surface Warefare pin, so I had to spend a fair amount of time hanging around with the "top siders" and learning all about what they did...)
WTF is it that people think it's ok to clip their nails in public? Whether in their cubicle at work, on an airplane, or (yes, it actually happened to me) at an adjoining table in a restaurant, not much spins me up faster... besides the annoying noise, if you're close enough to hear it, you're probably close enough to get a wayward chunk in your eye, food, etc. Blech!
Yeah, it was an intended double entendre. But I thought it would look too lame to reply to my own reply with a witticism... thanks for picking up on it!:)
I have a friend who used to work at Cisco. After the Linksys acquisition, they put management barriers in place so that people from the Cisco side of the house would be blocked from "infiltrating" and/or influencing Linksys with anything Cisco-related.
Cisco (at the time anyway) wanted to keep them "as is"... dunno if that's still the case or not.
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, and currently use a CPAP machine. Yeah, it looks dorky, but man do I sleep well now! Surgery just isn't a complete cure-all for most people... (for me it wasn't an option at all).
I've had the machine for a little over a year and the difference in quality of life is staggering. You just don't realize how tired you actually are until you get a really good night's sleep several nights in a row. And now, even if I do stay up later than I should, I know I'm going to get at least a couple of hours of quality sleep using it.
An added bonus - my acid reflux completely disappeared as well. (Waayy more than you wanted to know about me, I know, but...)
i don't see what's so hard or expensive about each county having to do it themselves (go to their local Kinko's and running off a bunch of copies of forms with all the names/votes on it)...
it would work like the punch card system but without the chad issue... (as an aside, i never understood how people could have a hard time with the punch cards anyway - how weak do you have to be to be unable to punch out a perforated circle?)
but you're right - the politicians will keep finding ways to make a clusterf--k out of anything they can...
I think the parent post was making an inference that there was only a single Novell certified Engineer... the possessive indication in the quoted phrase is ambiguous, and could be interpreted as the sole Certified Engineer that works for Novell...
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Actually the original product had quite a bit of Java in it. HTML was too unwieldy for displaying large numbers of machines...
There was an HTML "wrapper" interface (a la RaQ 550 etc), but the bulk of the interface was Java.
This is correct, although the Qube didn't do NAS (by default). Just SMB for Windows (and an old Samba that didn't do PDC/ACL etc) and netatalk for Macs.
FYI, Sun released the Qube and RaQ 550 OS under BSD license (the parts that weren't already GPL etc) last year. You can find it at http://open.cobaltqube.org/. There's a new group working to put it on generic Linux boxes, called BlueQuartz.
Sounds like all the errands we would send n00bs on in the Navy when we were bored during a deployment.
We sent one guy from the engine room down to the corpsman's office for 10 feet of Fallopian tube. There was also sending them up to see the bos'ns for buckets of prop wash. Or ordering steam blankets from supply (for those who may not know, a steam blanket is actually the process of laying up an offline boiler with steam from another source - prevents corrosion). Or getting batteries for the sound powered phones. Or going to the yeoman for a 1D-10T form (there was also a PU-55/Y form but we had to be careful about that one).
One of the best ones was the 'sea bat'... we were underway on a Med cruise in the summer of '93. Close to sundown, word went around on the messdeck that someone had actually caught a sea bat up in the helo hangar. The n00bs went running up, and were let in one at a time to see a cardboard box upside down on the deck, with a bunch of guys standing around it in a circle.
The new guy would be told that he couldn't just pick the box up as the bat would get away, so he had to bend over and pick up the edge a little and peek at it that way. As soon as he bent over, another guy would belt him across the ass with a broom. Get it? Har har... well, one dufus actually said "Hey quit it - I'm trying to look at the bat, and you're going to make me let him loose!" That dumb fucker took about 7 or 8 hits on the ass before he finally got the joke.
Another totally hilarious one, that our XO was in on - he loved to play jokes, was "mail buoy watch"... there were actually people who could be convinced that we got our mail onboard by leaning over the bow at a predetermined location with a boat hook and snagging a bag off a buoy floating there, like the old Pony Express or something... so some poor dumb SOB would be assigned the midwatch (midnight to 4am), and be sent up on the fo'c'sle in full battle dress, kapok, helmet, phones, etc - with a boathook and some binoculars. The bridge would call down every so often and tell him to keep watching... eventually they'd let him in on the joke, and a good laugh would be had by all.
Well one guy thought he was so smart - he'd heard about the ruse when in boot camp. So he decided to sleep in and not do his watch. That would have ruined our fun, so we got the postal clerk on board to give us an official mail bag, and we soaked it in salt water, tore up some paper, and slashed the bag up with a knife. We then went to the aforementioned SOB's rack and threw open the curtains, throwing the bag on his head and yelling at him about how f-ed up he was for blowing his watch, and now we ran over the damn buoy and the bag got shredded in the prop.
The look of horror on his face was priceless... "I thought that it was just a gag!" We said hell no it's no gag, and now we've got no mail, and the XO wanted to see him in his dress uniform ASAP.
So the guy gets out his dress blues and heads up to the XOs stateroom (at 0200 or so). The XO chews him out for a few minutes about obeying his leading petty office even if he thinks it's bullshit, etc. The guy got quite a bit of kidding the next day at breakfast...
Ahh, good times...
Who is this guy and what does a company like Cray know about... oh... never mind.
The only people who acutally use reverse osmosis for desalinization is steam power plants.
Actually the opposite is more likely. If you're generating/using steam, evaps make the most sense as you've already got a heat source that can be used "directly" to flash more water into steam. Reverse osmosis makes sense if you have a non-heat producing source of power - e.g., you're bringing in electricity off the grid to run pumps that push water through the membranes.
I spent six years as a Gas Turbine technician in the Navy. The majority of them, and all the older steam-powered ships, use evaporators to generate fresh water. I'm not sure about the nukes, but since they produce a crapload of steam to drive the turbines to make electricity, I'm betting they use evaps too.
The main source of heat for the evaps on the turbine ships are the "waste heat boilers" powered by the exhaust of the electric generators (3 Allison 501-K17s on the Ticonderoga cruisers for example). The ultra-pure boiler feedwater used to make more steam for the heat exchangers is produced through evaporation. In other parts of the system, bromine is added to the distilled water, making it into potable water for drinking, etc.
I think there are some ships (the new Arleigh Burke destroyers, and maybe the nuke carriers) that use reverse osmosis - far fewer maintenance headaches than you have tinkering with boiler water chemistry, heat exchangers, etc. Just replace the membranes as needed, and have a good "dirty side" flushing system - if the feed pump is a high enough capacity, a good chunk of the "clean side" water can be used to flush the crud...
Also, ships at have relatively clean water they are starting with - a desal plant close to shore would have a lot nastier stuff to have to filter out, which would require more frequent membrane changes, more $$...
I would hope that nobody is going to build a standalone desal plant. Having desal as a byproduct of electricity generation, especially a multi-fuel (diesel, LNG, methane, even powdered coal is possible now) cogeneration (thus the "co" in cogeneration - use the 'waste heat' to do something besides heat the atmosphere) plant, makes the most sense...
Increasing treatment plants makes the most sense to me, though. You're already starting with "fresh" water... Although at least here in San Diego, the people who don't understand the technology keep getting initiatives to build more treatment plants shot down by using a negative "toilet to tap" campaign...
Argh... f-ing submit instead of preview...
Should have used something more along the lines of "irrelevant" than "moot"...
Mea culpa
Most emergency vehicles l have those infrared signal beamer thingies (and yes, that's the technical term for them!) that tell traffic lights to turn (or stay) green...
They've been in the news recently as they are now available over the internet (albeit illegally); possession of one would render these "smart lights" moot... (and just to be a token grammar Nazi, notice I did *not* say "mute"!)
Yes! IANAA (accountant), but I've always thought that a flat tax would be the way to go... the hard part would be determining the correct percentage to charge, and which transactions would be charged (just pay, or interest and dividends, etc).
But no more whining from anyone about the different brackets, no more ways to "cheat", etc. It would simplify and reduce costs at the gov't level, at the payroll level for businesses, etc.
The only people that would be against it would probably be all the tax accountants... and the democrats wouldn't have their red herring complaint about "tax cuts for the wealthy" anymore...
As this specific ship is a research platform, I'm not sure what they have in the way of "standard issue" gear. But on the AEGIS cruiser I was on, the quartermasters all routinely performed "old style" navigation skills using sextants, etc. (obviously as backups to the electronic systems)...
Here's a list of the QMs responsibilities (note - I was a "lowly" snipe, but did earn my Surface Warefare pin, so I had to spend a fair amount of time hanging around with the "top siders" and learning all about what they did...)
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I think I read one of your books: "The Anonymous Coward's Guide to WLAN Security"
Chapter One: Never Tell Anyone Your Real Name
Ha ha! Funniest reply I've read in a while. You just made me shoot coffee out my nose with that one! Thanks a lot...
Oh well... now I have a reason to clean all the critters out of my keyboard.
Amen!
WTF is it that people think it's ok to clip their nails in public? Whether in their cubicle at work, on an airplane, or (yes, it actually happened to me) at an adjoining table in a restaurant, not much spins me up faster... besides the annoying noise, if you're close enough to hear it, you're probably close enough to get a wayward chunk in your eye, food, etc. Blech!
Wow, that is one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time!!! Wish I had some points to mod you up...
I think what the memo is implying is that the $55m Baystar deal happened because of Microsoft... Baystar didn't decide on their own to give SCO money.
Yeah, it was an intended double entendre. But I thought it would look too lame to reply to my own reply with a witticism... thanks for picking up on it! :)
I use my luggage combination - 12345.
You should just hope she doesn't get you one of those tapes instead...
Hmm... if fellatio would be on something too small and/or too high, you must be referring to a knee job then?
"That's alright, I just got it as a gag gift."
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*Gag* gift? Braggart.
<rim shot
Either that or, if gagging is a problem, you need to get her the *Advanced* Fellatio tape.
I have a friend who used to work at Cisco. After the Linksys acquisition, they put management barriers in place so that people from the Cisco side of the house would be blocked from "infiltrating" and/or influencing Linksys with anything Cisco-related.
Cisco (at the time anyway) wanted to keep them "as is"... dunno if that's still the case or not.
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, and currently use a CPAP machine. Yeah, it looks dorky, but man do I sleep well now! Surgery just isn't a complete cure-all for most people... (for me it wasn't an option at all).
I've had the machine for a little over a year and the difference in quality of life is staggering. You just don't realize how tired you actually are until you get a really good night's sleep several nights in a row. And now, even if I do stay up later than I should, I know I'm going to get at least a couple of hours of quality sleep using it.
An added bonus - my acid reflux completely disappeared as well. (Waayy more than you wanted to know about me, I know, but...)
that's nukUlar... get it right! :)
i don't see what's so hard or expensive about each county having to do it themselves (go to their local Kinko's and running off a bunch of copies of forms with all the names/votes on it)...
it would work like the punch card system but without the chad issue... (as an aside, i never understood how people could have a hard time with the punch cards anyway - how weak do you have to be to be unable to punch out a perforated circle?)
but you're right - the politicians will keep finding ways to make a clusterf--k out of anything they can...
I think the parent post was making an inference that there was only a single Novell certified Engineer... the possessive indication in the quoted phrase is ambiguous, and could be interpreted as the sole Certified Engineer that works for Novell...