Re: Captain David E. Harris Has Passed Away

Memory eternal!

Re: OJ Simpson has passed away

petertenthije wrote:

Now who will continue the search for the murderer of his ex wife?

Re: Boeing 757 to be converted to fire fighting tanker

I miss the DC-4 and P3 Orion tankers AeroUnion used to fly out of Chico (CIC/KCIC) in my youth, especially the DC-4s, and for that matter, I miss airline service to places like CIC. The terminal at CIC was like a miniature version of the old terminal at Sacramento, architecturally. But it is excitin...

Re: Dallas Metro School Administrator Urges 'Balance' in Holocaust Curriculum

Surprisingly-On a fundamental level, I can somewhat understand it. But given that this is Texas, I’m sure they don’t have the same reasoning that I do. The issue with teaching history is that it’s very easy to just say “they were bad, they did bad things, so we went over and beat them and we’re the...

Re: LAX power outage

stlAV8R wrote:

https://twitter.com/flyLAXairport
LAX airport twitter reporting T6 on backup power, all other areas appear to have power restored.

Re: Who do you think is the greatest living composer?

I'd certainly second (or third or fourth!) John Williams. It's just amazing that he has composed such a wide and diverse range of music, from the big hits like Star Wars/Indiana Jones to more sedate, but no less beautiful, pieces such as Schindler's List. Likewise, I'd also second Andrew Lloyd Webb...

Re: Who do you think is the greatest living composer?

I firmly believe he is the anti-christ. He has single-handedly ruined music. (For those not in the know: the next time you see someone drop a fork on the floor on a reality-TV show accompanied by a MIDI-programmed 300 piece orchestra, 60 timpanies, 100 foot bass drums going to 15 Hz in surround, ev...

Re: Carrie Fisher suffers cardiac arrest on LHR-LAX

So is she still alive then? I think that many people used to die if they have heart attack or this condition? She's still alive. She's in the Intensive Care Unit. Survival rates for cardiac arrest have gone up dramatically in recent years with the increasing prevalence of AEDs (Automated External D...

Re: What to do in Moscow?

Dutchy wrote:

Quite special is to go to a Orthodox Church ceremonie.

Re: Delta off taxiway in GRB

777Mech wrote:

What's bad is there isn't any air stairs in ATW, so they're having to use the firetrucks' ladder to offload the team.

RE: Intel Vs AMD

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RE: Intel Vs AMD

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RE: Intel Vs AMD

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RE: Intel Vs AMD

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RE: Intel Vs AMD

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RE: Intel Vs AMD

I'm going to reply to Klaus's two posts, in a somewhat out-of-order fashion: 1. The phenomenon of Windows installs becoming "slower" over time (commonly known as "Windows rot") is believed to result from "registry creep", where as more programs write data to the registry, and the registry grows and ...

RE: Computer Problem, Who Can Help Me?

I reccommend strongly against running a Windows system that has been compromised by a Trojan to the point where there is a noticeable problem. I would reccommend that you either reinstall, or at a minimum, run a rootkit scanner (AVG has a free-as-in-beer one availible for download) to make sure that...

RE: Computer Problem, Who Can Help Me?

What version of Windows are you running? The glitch you're describing is, to put it mildly, highly unusual. I'm tempted to reccommend that you just do a complete reinstall on your entire <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym>, as I suspect something is seriously b0rked, probably due to malw...

RE: Good LCD Screens - 19 Or 20 Inch

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RE: Good LCD Screens - 19 Or 20 Inch

The two brands of monitors I personally like are the IBM ThinkVision and the Dell flatpanels. The ThinkVision monitors are rather dramatically bright, perhaps excessively so from a color management perspective, but they do look hot nonetheless. The Dell flatpanels (at least, as of 2005) offer very g...

RE: Gotta Love Windows XP.... Ha

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RE: Gotta Love Windows XP.... Ha

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RE: Gotta Love Windows XP.... Ha

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RE: SQ To Put PC In Every Seat On A380

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RE: Gotta Love Windows XP.... Ha

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RE: Technology & Telecom Gurus, I Need Your Help!

The answer is almost certainly a "no." However, many VoIP providers do provide fairly decent rates on international calling. Your best bet would be to compare the total amount you're paying now with your current telecom provider + IDT, with what you would pay given the rates of the VoIP provider you...

SQ To Put PC In Every Seat On A380

According to <a href=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/082207-worldbeat-singapore-airlines-puts-a.html?netht=082207dailynews2&>this article in Network World</a>, Singapore Airlines will feature PCs for every passenger on the new A380, as part of the KrisWorld entertainment system. The computers ...

RE: What Have You Got Up On Your PC Screen Now?

Three remote console sessions, two using csh on a FreeBSD server, the other an ash shell on a router running Linux (Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato firmware).

RE: Exciting Day.... New Laptop Just Arrived

I don't see why Apple enthusiasts have to come out of the woodwork and flame this guy for buying a <acronym title="Air Fiji and Continental Airways (Russian Federation)">PC</acronym> with...shock...Windows. While <acronym title="NEW: Xtra Airways (USA) and OLD: Casino Express (USA)">XP</acronym> is ...

Freely Redistrutable Airliner Photos?

I'm looking for a source of freely redistributable photographs of commercial aircraft. In my hyper-limited spare time, I'm slowly working on an Open Source airline simulation game, that will most likely be released under the GNU GPL (v2 or maybe v3, not sure yet). If the game is to feature photos of...

RE: Joined The Mac Club!

You know, its completely wrong to say that data which has been overwritten can be recovered. Even if you to merely do a single overwrite pass and overwrite everything with "1s" or "0s", it is still widely doubted that the lingering magnetic field weakness where a 1 overwrote a 0, for instance, would...

RE: Joined The Mac Club!

<i>I don't know if most distributions include it in their default install or not, but there's a command line program for Linux called shred that does a secure delete.</i> Oh cool. I've heard of another one but I can't remember what it's called. There is also a cool new app for encrypting portions of...

RE: Post Your Desktop

This is a vintage 2001 Dell Dimension 8100 with a Pentium 4 1.4 ghz processor and 384 mb of RAM. What most people would regard as an end-of-life legacy <acronym title="Air Fiji and Continental Airways (Russian Federation)">PC</acronym> I regard as a useful asset. It does a great job running Novell S...

RE: Post Your Desktop

Oh, by the way, BA757, I like the Ubuntu desktop.   If you all are good, I might show you some of my other desktops. I do have a fair number of computers...

RE: Post Your Desktop

The following shows the heavily modified Kubuntu Linux desktop on my Mac Mini, with 3D effects via Beryl, extensively altered theming (I did retain Kwwii's excellent windeco however, but with some remorse discarded his fantastic panel artwork) and other bits of goodness. Note that with these hardwar...

RE: Too Many Old Computers On Your Hands? (Video)

True, <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym>. And to be fair, I also once inadvertantly dropped an old NetVista desktop I was working on (about a foot). It lived. I also had not realized that about the desktops being disposed of, so that's certainly great to know (that the incident in question was...

RE: Too Many Old Computers On Your Hands? (Video)

I wish I had noticed this thread earlier. In my opinion, one of the more unfortunate things going on in <acronym title="Kingfisher Airlines (India) AND Irtysh-Avia (Kazakhstan)">IT</acronym> at the moment is the needless disposal of a large number of perfectly solid enterprise desktops. I can guaran...

RE: Joined The Mac Club!

The use of a hammer on your laptop is unlikely to prevent a determined cracker (or forensics researcher) from accessing your data in a lab. However, software exists to overwrite blank areas in a filesystem with a randomized pattern of ones and zeros. Assuming you do not wish to disrupt the existing ...

RE: Anti Spyware Problems

A few bits of response, as it were: 1. Windows was not "designed" with no regard towards security, certainly not in its present incarnation. <acronym title="Egyptair">MS</acronym>-D<acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> had no protections in terms of security, but at the time it was created...

RE: Anti Spyware Problems

<i>Sure. Just not fast enough to actually catch up when others are widening their lead at the same time.</i> I'll accept that when I see <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> X and Vista implement in-kernel virtualization, 3D desktops, USB boot capabiilities, LiveCD/DVDs with persistent ho...

RE: Anti Spyware Problems

I'm not entirely sure, Klaus, if I'd agree with your assertion that the examples of architectural switches I made were less complex to migrate. On the contrary, Digital VMS systems were (and still are) heavily used as enterprise servers, and to a lesser extent as workstations, and any time you migra...

RE: Anti Spyware Problems

Ok a few comments here, which I wish I had made a few days ago, but, alas, I have been busy: 1. Apple's hardware switch was not "unprecedented." The aforementioned 68K to PPC transition was of similiar magnitude, and additionally, several other manufacturers have gone through even more dramatic arch...

RE: Windows XP Time Issue

Really though, I don't see how compelling that feature actually <acronym title="Island Airlines (USA) and Eagle Air/Arnaflug (Iceland)">IS</acronym>. Unless you're running a mission critical enterprise server that for whatever reason MUST have the correct time, synchornization really is just a toy I...

RE: Anti Spyware Problems

Enh I don't know, as far as I can tell a lot of the Apple products (like the Mac Book Pro) really are quite overpriced. Additionally, I find the erogonomics on Apple laptops to be uncomfortable at best. If you want to use another brand, like an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad (wonderful laptop line btw) or a Pa...

RE: Anti Spyware Problems

I wouldn't bother to run an <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> that had been tainted by spyware. Though it is somewhat of an inconvenience, I reccommend doing a complete reinstallation. Once reinstalled, following proper usage habits will almost certainly eliminate spyware. I suggest: 1...

RE: Windows XP Time Issue

It could well be a glitch in your firewall. One approach might be to disable your firewall (XP is relatively secure against remote holes), another approach would be to use a different firewall, and the third, and in my opinion, most sensible approach is to do neither. If your computer synchronized o...

RE: Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich Has Died

I have a CD somewhere of him conducting an orchestra in the performance of some works of Tchaikovsky. He was a fine conductor, in addition to being a fine cellist, and a fine human being in general.

RE: From IPod To ITunes

OK, let's clarify a few things here. Synching from your iPod to your computer is crippled by default, but not prevented. I am not a lawyer, but I don't think that bypassing that constitutes a violation of the DRM, as technically, you're not really circumventing anything. If you are using Windows, an...

RE: What Airlines Still Uses Hats?

Most US airlines that I've flown on recently have had their pilots wear traditional visor caps. This includes Delta, <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>, United, America West, Continental, and Southwest, among others. Flight attendant hats, on the other hand, are quite a bit less c...

RE: HP And US Fleet Size After Merger

I would also be fascinated to know more about how US structured that deal with Embraer.