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I'm shipping my desktop PC to my dorm in Huntsville, so I won't see it until next Tuesday.
And I'm flying there tomorrow morning.
And I'm flying there tomorrow morning.
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Sounds like a glowing review.:lol:
PhantomCruiser
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I know a few Marines that would consider that an acceptable evaluation (oorah!).
Izack
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Funny, I had the same experience tonight with some friends. We went out to look for meteors, and the first thing we saw was a satellite. Not bright enough to be the ISS, though, probably.
"Marines. They like to lift weights and kill stuff."
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And drink. And women. Although some of those women as really sketch.
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Forgot to mention; we had a nice 5.3 quake here yesterday at 15:00 local time. I had just parked and thought someone was shaking the car up and down by the rear fender, looked out and saw a "swell" like ocean waves going across the asphalt of the car park. Went on for about 60 seconds or so. An "enjoyable", so to speak, experience for someone who has taken a vulcanology course (I reckoned immediately that the Dolores-Guayaquil Megashear, which I live right on top of, had slipped a bit, and I was in as safe a place already as could be in the car in an open car-park). Others were panicking, especially when bits of plaster started falling off the walls and landslides on the hills around the Chiche gorge kicked up clouds of dust into the air.
It helps keep you calm to have an understanding of things! :lol:
It helps keep you calm to have an understanding of things! :lol:
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Oooh Raleigh waves, cool.
How literally does the ground swell? Doesnt that cause it to crack & fracture, or is it elastic enough to hold together?
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ex-orbinaut
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Yeah, I was expecting to see cracks develop myself, but they did not. It just looks like undulations on the surface, you see them as changes in light/shadow, moving quite quickly from astern (I had the back of the car facing the gorge, about 2 km away).
Unfortunately I believe two people were in fact killed as a result; a child in a store whom a hundredweight sack of rice fell on and someone who fell in an open mine.
EDIT: Just reading the reports on this event right now. I had been going by the local news on the magnitude and casualties, which has been sketchy information, to say the least. It seems the quake is confirmed at 5.1 and there was, indeed, a third casualty.
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I had a vaguely similar experience myself in Yellowstone two weeks ago - nothing quite so dramatic but I got to enjoy a few things--
1) My family was incredibly put-off by all of the sulfur in the air coming from the mud pots, mini-geysers and fumaroles.
2) It was an incredible experience to realize one was standing in the caldera of, for all intents and purposes, an active volcano.
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* Spacethingy is feeling murderous.
Epson pushes a firmware update to my printer, by silently including firmware updates in a driver update. The firmware now no longer accepts older cartridge chip versions - i.e. the perfectly good, but about 80% cheaper 3rd party cartridges.
I have two choices:
1) Try resetting the EPROM chip: also resets the printer back to fresh-from-the-factory mode, requiring genuine cartridges for its first ink priming.
2) Buy genuine cartridges from now on.
AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!
EDIT: so uh... apparently, the cartridge wasn't quite in right... Ah. This is awkward. :shifty:
Epson pushes a firmware update to my printer, by silently including firmware updates in a driver update. The firmware now no longer accepts older cartridge chip versions - i.e. the perfectly good, but about 80% cheaper 3rd party cartridges.
I have two choices:
1) Try resetting the EPROM chip: also resets the printer back to fresh-from-the-factory mode, requiring genuine cartridges for its first ink priming.
2) Buy genuine cartridges from now on.
AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!
EDIT: so uh... apparently, the cartridge wasn't quite in right... Ah. This is awkward. :shifty:
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Quick_Nick
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I was afraid my campus apartment wouldn't have the same internet speed as my dorm did last year. Well... it's actually faster now... a LOT faster...
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That's scary. Our in-house network isn't by far that fast.
And at university we have a 1Mb/s cap, but no upload cap, or at least a very high one.
And at university we have a 1Mb/s cap, but no upload cap, or at least a very high one.
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You are getting FTTH everywhere ... and we are trying to squeeze the remaining few bits out of copper cables because our politicians are having their comfortable retirement positions in our telecom monopolist and refuse to invest into glass fiber.
Bibi Uncle
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Internet providers in Canada are a real joke. There is a strong monopoly, and as a result, we get :
for 49,95$ per months. And that's because we have a telephone line with the same company. Otherwise, it would be 59,95$.
Oh, I almost forgot the 60 Gb limit in download. For an unlimited access, it's an extra 10$ per month, and you need to have a telephone line with the same company as well as a TV service.
for 49,95$ per months. And that's because we have a telephone line with the same company. Otherwise, it would be 59,95$.
Oh, I almost forgot the 60 Gb limit in download. For an unlimited access, it's an extra 10$ per month, and you need to have a telephone line with the same company as well as a TV service.
MaverickSawyer
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I was afraid my campus apartment wouldn't have the same internet speed as my dorm did last year. Well... it's actually faster now... a LOT faster...
You lucky SOB!
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How to do it worse:
But thats likely one symptom of my current network troubles. Not sure if this is the ISP or my local router, but I run out of ideas about my local technology. Also, I used WiFi...
But thats likely one symptom of my current network troubles. Not sure if this is the ISP or my local router, but I run out of ideas about my local technology. Also, I used WiFi...
