The variable is that the sun is at a low point in activity right now. I wonder if we'll see a larger failure rate of satellites orbiting the region. I guess it's extra tin-foil for them too. How would you go about shielding something that big from electrical fields that strong?
Actually Mythbusters had a good run at this. It turns out that there is far too much back pressure produced for the potato to stay lodged. You, more or less, end up with a decent potato cannon.
"Many open-source applications, like Apache, now also run on both Windows and Linux, "which is something to bear in mind," he said."
What he didn't say is that Windows is prone to crashing for seemingly no reason at all. Even if you have an open-source application that was ported to, or written for Windows, you still have that inherent problem.
I have both Windows and Linux boxes running at my home. I have never seen one of my windows boxes go for more than a few days without one of the core processes failing and the computer requiring reboot. My linux boxes go months at a time and usually only go down if a package update goes awry.
It comes down to which platform does the open-source application run BEST on, not, "Does it run on it?"
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The variable is that the sun is at a low point in activity right now. I wonder if we'll see a larger failure rate of satellites orbiting the region. I guess it's extra tin-foil for them too. How would you go about shielding something that big from electrical fields that strong?
...it's been found that most guys already have a great tool for all this mono-tasking, Selective Hearing.
Actually Mythbusters had a good run at this. It turns out that there is far too much back pressure produced for the potato to stay lodged. You, more or less, end up with a decent potato cannon.
How do you determine that it will gain or lose a second in 400 million years instead of 70 million years if:
A.)It hasn't been around long enough to find out.
B.)There are no timepieces more accurate to base this estimate on.
"Many open-source applications, like Apache, now also run on both Windows and Linux, "which is something to bear in mind," he said." What he didn't say is that Windows is prone to crashing for seemingly no reason at all. Even if you have an open-source application that was ported to, or written for Windows, you still have that inherent problem. I have both Windows and Linux boxes running at my home. I have never seen one of my windows boxes go for more than a few days without one of the core processes failing and the computer requiring reboot. My linux boxes go months at a time and usually only go down if a package update goes awry. It comes down to which platform does the open-source application run BEST on, not, "Does it run on it?"