Posts by Stoneshop

Re: I've done this too

Over 20 years ago, so no smartphone pics.

Aircon popped in computer room. Getting toasty rapidly.

Close to 35, in my case: I'm in the computer room for some reason when I hear the dull roar soundscape changing. After a couple of seconds it dawns on me that it's the aircon rumble that's absent now. Which means that there's now close to 100kW going in every second that's not taken out, which is clearly suboptimal for the continued operation of the equipment present. I sprint out the door and into the sysadmin pen, and alert those present. Half get assigned to raiding the offices and confiscating any fan they see, the others shut down and switch off all the systems and storage not deemed absolutely essential. It's the one time I've seen a thermograph move, climbing 10 degrees in as many minutes.

We lost maybe three RA81 HDAs and one logic board out of well over a hundred, and one memory board from one of the systems.

Re: Marketing

Mines the one with the pockets full of leaves.

How many of those have you dug up so far?

Re: Giant?

The dunes at Noctis Labyrinthus are about 285.71429 linguine, 0.28925748 brontosaurus high, the ones at Hellas basin are about 535.71429 linguine, 0.54235778 brontosaurus high.

Better?

the default password on the Reaper drones.

Gr1m

Have you considered

the possibility that a book may have pages missing, duplicated or bound in the wrong order? That would cause the reader to be presented with a different story than the writer intended. Or does your method include a way to resolve each 'subsequent page' reference to the actual page as it should be, over the air (electronic or avian)?

Re: Logically if a comet makes enough passes near the sun....

Of course if this thing really has been in interstellar space getting some samples off its surface (or some detailed surface analysis) would seem like quite a good idea.

Maybe the next one if we spot it coming in, and manage to get Bruce Willis out of his cryo container and defrosted in time. For this one you'll need a mighty fast rocket just to catch up with it, and then there's the getting it back.

Re: Fgs

There is not much point in having a nuclear arsenal if we can only aim it when the yanks say its ok.

With nuclear stuff I doubt that it would matter much if one was a couple of miles off, and as it would probably trigger MAD (from more than two adversaries, as it is now) there's not that much need for extreme precision anyway. The US and USSR managed fine (for particular values of 'fine') without GPS precision for decades that way.

It's the conventional guided missiles that you want to fly in the bathroom window, then down the stairs and into the storage cupboard that need it.

Re: "Flew halfway around the world" = "Auckland to Sydney"?

Auckland is in New Zealand. :-)

Sydney, however, is in Australia.

Going via Sydney also got him closer to 'travelling halfway around the world" than a direct flight from AKL/NZAA would.

Re: personal printers of mangement in your ...

True, but if the dot pattern is related to the source of the document, not just the hosted printer

It's the printer that adds the dot pattern. Note the mention in TFA that Samsung, Brother and Tektronix printers don't seem to add those dots.

For the love of $DIETY

Now with 30% less hellfire and damnation.

Re: All microsoft have to do to become the most popular company

And delete all emails and data, including backups.

How about 'accidentally' removing any access protections instead?

Re: obvious solution ...

You could even connect from the RS232 port of the MRI computer to a computer that is on the network,

As MRI data sizes are expressed in GB, using RS232 appears suboptimal. I think you'd want something optical (easy to make sure the receiver cannot send) with speeds of at least 100Mbit/s. And only hardware flow control signalling back to the sender.

Re: Lars & the future interview

The bigger question is: is he going to show up on the date you set?

I imagine the same people post on Windows PC stories suggesting people adopt Linux on their PC's - a sure way to make a PC almost useless.

1998 called, it wants that argument back.

Re: On the "my name search" thing...

Granted that she had an uncommon name (for this area) but it was frightening how much of our personal lives are eagerly offered up to any random stranger in a non-specific search.

Although that only works if someone put that information on the Internet for Google to scrape in the first place.

Re: I haz a disappoint

They might want to do that after the sciency bits are dealt with; it's a bit troublesome to do them the other way around.