Posts by Chemist

Standard out-of-the-box on OpenSUSE

firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64,

That seems highly suspect

You can't keep radiation levels a secret !

All sorts of people will be measuring, near and far. After Chernobyl, for example, the pharmaceutical research site I worked at in England ( >2000km away) spotted the abnormal levels very quickly because they were concentrated on ventilation filters. It's so easy to detect extremely low levels of ionizing radiation

why they overheated? → #

The primary reaction has shutdown but highly radioactive waste products with very short-half-lives generate a considerable amount of heat as they decay. Without cooling, depending on the reactor design this can lead to overheating and potentially melting

Ditto

Been running it since the early SuSe distros. Rock solid - running on 6 machines at the moment on 11.2

Re : Garbage? #

He's quite correct water doesn't break down appreciably even at 2000 C. Even then it's in equilibrium with only a small percentage of free hydrogen/oxygen.

The only way of generating sig. free hydrogen is to react the water with some material such as zirconium as others have mentioned

solar has the side effect of trying to give us all skin cancer.

What !!!!!

The BBC are reporting..

that they did have diesel generators but these failed after (?) hours.

What make you think ..

That filing a patent is easy. In the UK & EU patent filings are examined. The documents are detailed and extremely tedious and take a large chunk out of ones working life.

Just a guess..

'cos I'm an organic chemist but maybe it forms a plasma more readily. Its ionisation potential is quite low whilst having reasonable mass.

On the other hand maybe it's the blue glow that makes your spaceship look like a 'proper' spaceship

Let me fix that

The quote is : ""matter can be neither created or destroyed in a CHEMICAL reaction"

"running OpenVMS and still got infected."

Nonsense.

To quote from your ref.

"The Trojans came via a PDF attachment in an e-mail."

It was a PDF in an email. I don't know about OpenVMS biut the Linuxes I run wouldn't have got infected AND I doubt if OpenVMS would either

It depends

It could dual boot just as Windows & Linux can now or it could run WebOS in WIndows (or Linux) using VirtualBox just as either can now. WebOS in any case is just basically Linux

Re : What !

What cross-grained moron downvoted this.

It's a FACT - my wife's TOURAN is the same - for that matter every car I've ever owned has been better than 20 mph /1000 revs (since 1969). My motorhome at 3.5 tonnes does ~30 mph/1000 revs.

For goodness sake disagree with an OPINION but this info. is available on VW's website

"I seldom see junk mail these days"

Certainly I use Plusnet, have had my email address for years, and my experience is that very little spam gets through (1-2 /month compared with 10+ a day a few years ago)

What !!!!

You must be out of your mind !

(One of my mates invented Arimidex)

"how much is this like a magnox reactor then"

No at all. This governs the working fluid in the turbine stage - which will be steam in any conventional nuclear plant

"That's something for Linux users to think about,"

I thought about it - a long time ago - Microsoft's cr*p doesn't go near my systems.

Problem is ..

Anywhere outside the solar system is such a dickens of a long way away that the chances of a very fast chunk of rock arriving here, finding the Earth, surviving entry AND containing signs of life seem pretty remote

poisonous

Chronically poisonous, not acutely, so rather a slow assault weapon

Not exactly

but it's certainly rather poor. Very fit, muscular athletes are often rather high BMI but low body fat

4 points.

It's better to be the 'correct ' weight AND fit, but it seems better for health to be fit and rather overweight than unfit and 'correct' weight.

There seem to be better measures of weight, BMI is just the easiest to measure but studies have shown that % of body fat or even just waist measurement are better predictors of poor health outcomes. Very fit, muscular athletes are often rather high BMI but low body fat

Exercise does seem to be VERY important for long-term good health.

Because of chance & biological variation lots of people will experience different outcomes.

Re : Firefox update?

Typo I presumed

Er, don't know but he did say ..

"The problem with chemistry is that it's too difficult for chemists " or similar

Link

Borsa Italiana runs on the TradElect system, based on Microsoft .Net and written in C#

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3262202/lses-borsa-italiana-halts-trading-after-price-information-glitch/

I'm puzzled

Although emulation is mentioned in the article I can't see any performance figures. Is it me ? The only performance mentioned relating to 80x86 is the 30% hit on emulation. I assume the main use will be running native code under MIPS variant Linux.

Oh sure

Yes I appreciate that - I was just puzzled by the comment "but he is very enthusiastic about the Atom family, particularly now that it runs 64-bit code," which makes it sounds as though this is a recent thing.

I built the file server when I needed it - I'd much rather have an even lower powered one.

Shouldn't that be ...

and lose 1KW or ~1.5%

(100^2)*0.1

"there's excess relatively-clean power being generated, what could I do with it to make a profit?""

Just reinforce your argument. Where is this so-called excess power going ? What's getting very hot ?

It's the printer drivers

It isn't !

The vast majority of printers work with Linux. Even cheapo scanner/copier/printers have printer drivers.