Nice neat little propulsion system!
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This video describes a propulsion system used in some rocketbelts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnIihCSF9vE
Apparently high pressure hydrogen peroxide, is forced by high pressure nitrogen through a grill of silver (a catalyst to the breakdown of H2O2). This breakdown produces water and oxygen, and as any chemist will tell you, quite a lot of heat. The water (at this point high pressure steam) and oxygen of course have a much higher volume than the H2O2 and are therefore forced out of the direction thruster thingies...
This is quite a clever little propulsion system, I think I'd like to build one.
Hmm, you can't just go and buy the upgrade because it's cheaper! The upgrade is for people who have earlier versions of windows, legally. There are limits on the versions which qualify, maybe 95, 98, ME, 2000 etc. If you don't own a legal version of one of these OS's you can't just buy the upgrade of XP as you won't satisfy the license and it will still be illegal, there's no point then.
I'm often asked to do things to PC's which turn out to be running a pirated XP. When I tell the owners they usually say something like 'so what'. If I tell them I won't work on an illegal version they think about buying, see the price and make odd noises.
Come on people, if you can't stand the price, use FLOSS for god's sake.
I really don't see what all the fuss is about, if MS want to make sure your copy of windows is legit, then fine, after all, you bought into their crap. And for all of those people who actually did buy into it, getting rid of the illegal copies makes forking out the money seem a lot less painful, for those who didn't, how can you expect it to work, you stole it. Nobody would mind if Ford introduced some tracking gadget to help stop car theft......well, maybe they would, but I'm sure not so many would.
I hate MS as much as the next slashdotter, but the endless moaning about WGA is really starting to get to me.
I live in Auckland, New Zealand. A couple of weeks ago a rusty link on a high power cable broke and the entire of Auckland was without power. It would cost a huge amount, but the long distance high power cables which supply the north of NZ should be underground.
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This video describes a propulsion system used in some rocketbelts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnIihCSF9vE Apparently high pressure hydrogen peroxide, is forced by high pressure nitrogen through a grill of silver (a catalyst to the breakdown of H2O2). This breakdown produces water and oxygen, and as any chemist will tell you, quite a lot of heat. The water (at this point high pressure steam) and oxygen of course have a much higher volume than the H2O2 and are therefore forced out of the direction thruster thingies... This is quite a clever little propulsion system, I think I'd like to build one.
Hmm, you can't just go and buy the upgrade because it's cheaper! The upgrade is for people who have earlier versions of windows, legally. There are limits on the versions which qualify, maybe 95, 98, ME, 2000 etc. If you don't own a legal version of one of these OS's you can't just buy the upgrade of XP as you won't satisfy the license and it will still be illegal, there's no point then.
I'm often asked to do things to PC's which turn out to be running a pirated XP. When I tell the owners they usually say something like 'so what'. If I tell them I won't work on an illegal version they think about buying, see the price and make odd noises.
Come on people, if you can't stand the price, use FLOSS for god's sake.
I really don't see what all the fuss is about, if MS want to make sure your copy of windows is legit, then fine, after all, you bought into their crap. And for all of those people who actually did buy into it, getting rid of the illegal copies makes forking out the money seem a lot less painful, for those who didn't, how can you expect it to work, you stole it. Nobody would mind if Ford introduced some tracking gadget to help stop car theft... ...well, maybe they would, but I'm sure not so many would.
I hate MS as much as the next slashdotter, but the endless moaning about WGA is really starting to get to me.
I live in Auckland, New Zealand. A couple of weeks ago a rusty link on a high power cable broke and the entire of Auckland was without power. It would cost a huge amount, but the long distance high power cables which supply the north of NZ should be underground.
After all, if you can hear it, you can copy it!
You can set up root in the 'normal' way, this may be default in the server install (if it's not, that's something to think about for the future).