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Comment on Movie Review: Red Tails by Danalee

Danalee — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:01:54 +0000

Hi James, I noticed the Marsden matting, too. I was wondering, though, had it been introduced to the European theater by the time portrayed in the movie? I can find where it was used in the Pacific and later at Normandy. Do you know anything more? Thanks.

Comment on The “I Don’t Test Well” Student Excuse by C'est moi

C'est moi — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:59:53 +0000

Honestly, I am one of these students. I have a 10.5 GPA on the 11.0 scale. I simply don’t test well. I understand the material, I do well on the assignments, but I don’t test well. Sure, I almost always pass my tests, but its not unheard of for me to fail them. As for why, your guess is a good as mine.

Comment on Blue Angels Airshow over San Francisco, October 2011 by Janet Morris

Janet Morris — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:46:00 +0000

Do you know if KRON has a video online of their coverage of Blue Angels on Saturday, October 9 ?

Comment on Could Flight 1549 Have Landed at La Guardia instead of in the Hudson River? by gs

gs — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:44:35 +0000

They have an alternate way to lower the gear. There have been many simulations of this in simulators by experienced 320 pilots varying from they knew it was coming to they had no idea. I was told the success rate was above 80% making either LGA, Teterboro, or Ewr (I think).

Comment on Stanford Law School Lecture: The Constitutional Assault on ObamaCare by Brian

Brian — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:21:50 +0000

I’ve been searching the Internet for a podcast or audio or video of this debate, with no luck. For others on the same quest, who might have landed on this post too, here’s a page linking to the audio & video to a November 18, 2010 Federalist Society debate:

“Debating the Constitutionality of the Federal Health Care Legislation”

http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/pubid.2017/pub_detail.asp

2 debaters on each side, including Randy Barnett – a close colleague of Epstein – arguing against the new law.

(If anyone can find media of Epstein-Karlin debate, please post the link!)

Comment on Netgear GS108T Smart Switch Notes by Rao

Rao — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:08:04 +0000

Hi James, I was just wondering, is it possible to add static routes for the Vlan’s created in this switch. It is sort of useless to have Vlans without having the option to define routes. Would appreciate the answer. Besides that, nice post :-9

Comment on Installing munin-1.4-alpha on Centos 4.5 by ovidiu

ovidiu — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:33:29 +0000

I have struggled forever with this memcached plugin for munin: http://exchange.munin-monitoring.org/plugins/memcached-multigraph/details I keep getting this error with it on Debian:

2010/09/13-19:19:23 [8430] Service ‘memcached_multi_bytes’ timed out.

do you have any idea what could be wrong?

Comment on Comments on Online Account Security by TeleSign Matt

TeleSign Matt — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:17:23 +0000

Thanks for your relevant and timely post with respect to enhancing security on Facebook. I have been working with a company who has pioneered some of the alternative solutions you are proposing. http://www.telesign.com

Respectfully,

TeleSign Matt

Comment on Airbus A330 Unsafe to Fly by Jim Reilly

Jim Reilly — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:32:37 +0000

The Airbus, in my opinion, should never have been certified. It is not a very well-kept secret that one of the Airbus’s flown by Jetblue is called “Satan’s Kitten” by the pilots, because the computer has almost caused a fatal incident on at least three flights. The Airbus is not structurally safe. To lighten weight the major parts of the airframe have been diminished. The computer avoids stress by restricting angle of bank and movement of the controls. When the structures are stressed they tend to disintegrate as in the case of the Airbus that lost it’s tail when leaving Kennedy. Because the parts are assembled in many countries quality control is lacking. The wiring harnesses on different production runs have the same color in the harness leading to a different electrical connection. The computer system, without which the aircraft cannot fly, is not hardened. It can be completely shut down by an electromagnetic pulse from a terrorist device and it takes eight minutes for the computer to reboot, during which time the pilot has no control of the flight surfaces.

If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.

Comment on O’Reilly Open Source Conference 2010, Portland by Brian Aker

Brian Aker — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:54:18 +0000

Hi!

MariaDB does not have “All of the core developers”. Optimizer? Yes, but that is about it. They have none of the replication developers, connector, etc.. They have a great group of people, but they have just a tiny fraction of the folks who ever worked on MySQL. Most of them are still at Oracle.

Here is a breakdown I did a while ago:
http://krow.livejournal.com/687521.html

Cheers,
-Brian