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A Day in the Life | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

Power, etc. by ana

(4.00 / 4) #1 Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 05:03:44 AM EST

I've worked on various space flight projects. Shortly after one went up, I was in the control room, which, what with checkout and turning on and all being in progress, was a busy and crowded place. Each subsystem had 3 or more computers and as many engineers.

Over their workplace the power supply & solar cells folks hung up a banner reading

NO POWER, NO NOTHING

Not to be outdone, the communications folks hung this slogan:

NO COMM, KNOW NOTHING

Regular, or decaf abomination? --Kellnerin

Comms people are so witty by ReallyEvilCanine (4.00 / 1) #4 Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 05:49:09 AM EST

It makes you just want to bash 'em over the head with a low-gain antenna. Can't use the high-gain; those things never work right.

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: The GRO story by ana (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 06:58:26 AM EST

is one of the few cases in space flight history I'm aware of where humans on hand fixed something they weren't expected to fix (or was designed for human intervention at great cost). It would have been a very different observatory without the high gain antenna.
Regular, or decaf abomination? --Kellnerin
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server topologies by Merekat

(4.00 / 1) #2 Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 05:06:53 AM EST

You can easily centrally administer and maintain geographically diverse setups, with a little planning and some basic hands&eyes contracts.

: Of course you /can/... by ReallyEvilCanine (4.00 / 1) #3 Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 05:29:38 AM EST

But $MegaCorp won't. Spot the difference.

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VMWare is indeed the ants pants. by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 07:10:46 AM EST

And I've got a nice home made Vista Beta VM image all set up if you want one. Really. I'm half serious on this. It's 7.5GB uncompressed.

ObLinuxDorkVistaReaction by ucblockhead

(2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 07:29:02 AM EST

It's ok...it has all that eye-candy I ended up turning off when I used Enlightenment in 1999 because it hogged the CPU of my 250 mhz box.

I personally like Parallels.
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[ucblockhead is] useless and subhuman

I hate eye candy by ReallyEvilCanine (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 07:52:19 AM EST

I want my processor to, you know, process important shit. In my world, animations and transparency fall far outside the definition of "important". I still use "Windows Classic" as the default theme on all machines. The background may be teal, dark blue, grey or black depending on the machine's purpose.

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: I love eye-candy by Cloaked User (2.00 / 0) #9 Thu Oct 12, 2006 at 10:25:44 AM EST

If I'm spending 10+ hours every day staring at something, it'd better be pleasing to my eyes¹. Besides, I spent a metric shedload on my 7800GTX², I'd quite like it to earn its keep all the time, not just when I'm playing Oblivion or F.E.A.R.. (Most if not all of the extra workload of Aero is taken up by the GPU, of course)
1 that's utterly subjective, of course - hence I said my eyes
2 shortly before the 7900s came out. Go me!

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This is not a psychotic episode. It is a cleansing moment of clarity.
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