Posts by EnderX

Goes to sleep while still light outside, I'd bet.

Does renaming the crontab file cause problems with the cron process?

About a week ago, I was trying to make an update to the crontab files on all of our district servers. About halfway through, I got this 'brilliant' idea to simply copy the crontab file off of a system that had been updated, and load it onto the systems that hadn't been. In order to prevent myself from clobbering the original crontab file, I renamed it to 'cron_old' before copying the updated crontab file across.

And now, for about a week, some of the servers have been missing their scheduled daily database backups. I've looked at permissions across the board for crontab file, cron.daily folder, backup job, and backup directory. As far as I can tell, the only difference between systems with working backups and those
without working backups is that the non-working ones are, so far as I can tell, those where I copied the updated crontab file over instead of attempting to update it manually. It would appear that, somehow, this is what is responsible for killing the daily backups.

The copied files were briefly routed through a windows environment; I was working on a windows-side application when the request to make the change came through, and began with putty. I used a program that maps a drive to a samba share to open the connections across which I made the actual copies.

However, there's also an hourly job run, that I …

Yes but there is only a certain level of heat that these things can generate and as i have said nothing to the point of changing th structure of the metal

Ever ruined the temper on a pocketknife, Lash? That's about what's being described here. Not an exact comparison, I admit, but if the steel's been specifically tempered (or treated in a similar manner) to strengthen it, then removing that will seriously weaken it. And given that it's possible to ruin the temper of a knife in an ordinary fireplace or firepit, I'd presume that the sustained, high-heat fires in the WTC could do the job. Especially since, from some of what I've read, in addition to being worthless at adhering to a surface, the fireproofing used in place of asbestos was only good up to 1100 degrees. (The same source placed asbestos as good up to 2100 degrees.) Considering every temperature estimate I've ever had thrown at me for the WTC fires was above that, it'd mean that there would easily be enough heat to leach through the 'fireproofing' and begin ruining the supports.

You still have to have a heat source hot enough to form the molten metal. It does not have to be an open flame and there was nothingin the buildings capable of doing this.

Exactly what metals were supposed to have gone molten? Every picture I've seen of debunkers pointing out 'molten metal' always looked more like a sparkshower to me. Admittedly, I'm no expert …

How do you cheat on this???

Pure random clicking. I wasn't trying to get the key in, I just kept clicking until the key and the keyhole matched up.

Agreed 100%. However, doing that may depend on whether or not the vast majority of researchers are willing to cast aside the current blind spot they're working under.

~10, although I may have been cheating.

And on what authority should we listen to your demands?

but the keywords here are acceleration and co-relation. while earth's temperatures have been rising for a very long time it has never rose at the rate at which it rises now. and it also happens at the same time that we have released huge amounts of green house gasses into the atmosphere.

Can you offer proof of similar warming events after volcanic activity? From some of what I've read, the average major eruption tosses more greenhouse gasses into the air than all human efforts combined. If there isn't a corelation between eruptions and warming, I'm going to assume that simply pumping greenhouse gasses won't cause warming.

by day the earth receives heat energy from the sun. and at night that energy is lost back into space. this maintains earth's temperature at a roughly stable level over large geological time periods. however ask anyone who knows either farming or geology and he will tell you that your coldest nights are the nights without cloud cover because the clouds will prevent the loss of heat to the cold and dark regions of space. that is a natural green house. in my country which is warmer than both USA and Europe one can clearly see the difference between a cloudless and cloudy night. a cloudless night tends to have frost. especially during winter. i am going to take a guess and say that the USA central, southern and western regions are similar.

gasses like CO2 emulate that effect. it traps the suns …

You're missing the point, Lash. There was no asbestos; asbestos would have worked as fireproofing. The substitute wasn't as effective; the original document I saw this referenced in claimed that some of it adhered weakly enough that it could have been pulled off the wall with no trouble. And the substitute was also, apparently, only rated for temperatures about half as high as asbestos can handle.

Gore was in Congress at the time the 'net proper was established. As I understand it, that's where he bases his claim to have 'invented' the 'net. Apparently, he sat on some sort of commission that somehow was involved in the build.

Since I, personally, define the 'net as having been invented when ARPANET went active, I don't believe a word of it.

- I can disprove the "dimpled and prengnant chad were attempts to vote" conspiracy myself. I used to service the same kind of Documation card readers they used in the election. As a weekly test, we used to run decks of new blank cards through the readers multiple times. Dimpled chad appearing on the new cards was an indication that the machine should be changed out for service. Dirt was jamming the sense-pins.

Sure, but 'dirty machines' wouldn't give Algore the votes he needed to lay claim to the Alabaster Domicile.

- The fires in the World Trade Centers were more than hot enough to cause the buildings to fall, and they would have caused them to fall in the way they actually fell. The temperature did not have to get hot enough to melt the steel. It just had to get hot enough that the steel changed back into iron and lost its extra strength. That happens at about half the melting temperature.

The WTC was constructed with all of its vertical supports around the exterior of the building. Then, steel cross members held up the concrete floors. What happened is that the heat from the jet fuel fires raised the temperature of the cross members high enough that the steel stopped being steel. Then, all it took was one floor coming loose.

The steel on one floor failed enough to let the concrete slab drop onto the slab below it. But the steel on the floor below …

The answer he's looking for is probably this:

1. Label the switches A, B, and C.
2. Turn on switch A for about five minutes, then turn it off.
3. Turn on switch B.
4. Go into the other room.

Look at three lights. One of them is on, this belongs to switch B. One of them is off, but will be warm to the touch. This belongs to switch A. The last one, which is cool to the touch, belongs to switch C.

And last I checked, down came off of feathered creatures, not elephants.

If you want to start with riddles, then why not go restart the Riddle Game in the posting games subforum?

The usual argument: In general, the moon is about one light-second from the earth. So with Lightspeed transmissions, it should take two seconds from the time something is said on earth, to the time the response gets back. The delays were longer than two seconds, so they obviously weren't where they were supposed to be.

My question on that: What, you're not going to allow the astronauts to take a moment to think about what they're going to say?

Well I'm sure it must be, unless the American Cancer Society, Center for Disease Control, and WHO are all wrong.

I'm not sure about the ACS, but I've heard some questionable stuff on the CDC, and considering that I've seen evidence that WHO rewrote the African definition of the disease AIDS so that it doesn't require any of the three key components that make up the American definition, merely some of the same symptoms, I'd be a bit suspicious on that as well.

[For those who care, the three components are: Presence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus {HIV}, T-cell count below a specific mark {Sorry, can't recall what it is at the moment}, and presence of an 'opportunistic' disease.]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that, "There is no risk-free level of secondhand smoke exposure. Even brief exposure can be dangerous."

Due to the fact that it's smoke, laden with CO, CO2, etc...sure. But given the earlier argument about the substances that remain inside the discarded butt, how much of the toxins are even being turned into smoke in the first place? And I refer you again to the issue of hormesis on the 'no-threshold' argument.

Secondhand smoke exposure causes heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults.

Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their heart disease risk by 25–30% and their lung cancer risk by 20–30%.

Were all other risk factors taken into consideration when dealing with these …

thats the same sort of reasoning that Hitler used

I hereby invoke Godwin's Law on the grounds of reductio ad Hitlerem and declare Lasher511 to be the winner in this dispute.

I guess you have to ask Mr. Al Gore.
After all, he also invented the internet, and who knows what else.

If I recall correctly, he also claims to have been the one to have 'found' Love Canal.

And on the 'net inventor claim: How are we defining the 'internet' in this case? The original ARPANET setup, the major network linkups in the 70's and 80's, or the actual 'internet' as it exists today?

Yes Russia gave up but that was because they believed it. As i said in my previous post it was not untill 1990 thats the moon landing conspiracy was raised. Which is how many decades after it actually took place. If the conspiracy had been raised right after the moon landing im sure russia would have kept going or at least sought evidence that it was real and the Americans would have wasted even more money on trying to prove that they went to the moon.

Actually, according to the wikipedia entry referenced earlier in the thread, there were some people holding that the whole thing was a conspiracy well before the '90s.

Does it have to be cigarette smoke, or would, say, secondhand fireplace smoke serve as well?

A discarded cigarette butt can contain enough nicotine to kill a small child or animal!

Would that not indicate, though, that the individual who smoked and then discarded the cigarette didn't get very much of the nicotine within it themself?

And about those dosage factors: Assuming a direct scaleup from rat mass to human mass, and an equivalent percentage scaleup from the rat dose, what would be the equivalent human dosage?

thanx ppl i am flattered and that english is called shortcutting ha ha ha excuse me for being realistic ha ha ha

What you are calling 'shortcutting' is an attempt to recreate the English language in a manner more preferable to you. The problem is, to those who are more used to the English language as it is now, you come across as either confused, or confusing. It becomes difficult to parse your writing, and the main result is that most people would rather make fun of you than attempt to understand what you are trying to say. Please make an attempt to respond in normal English, with proper grammar. I would appreciate this, and I believe that most of the other people who post on this site would appreciate it as well.

Hey, there's a good reason for that one's fame. Have you actually read the book, or just learned about it?

It's not live, so they might not. But again, don't go giving the music industry any ideas!

There's no guarantee that the cables were thirteen years old. The only thing that article states is that the original company hadn't replaced them in thirteen years. It's always possible that the park went with someone else for replacements. I doubt that was wise, but it's still possible.

I don't understand why the bussiness has to pay the money for royalties on songs performed by hired musicians.

Because otherwise the music industry legalisms team would have to find honest jobs.

Seems to me that music companies are at the point where they can't go after people downloading music so they are going after silly little things. Next they will be demanding royalties for when you sing a song around the camp fire.

SSHHH!! Don't give them any ideas!

I think the music companies should be ashamed of themself. Yes they need to be making a profit in order to keep going but you can't seriously tell me that they are losing money from people playing their artists songs in coffee houses and bars. I challenge the record comapanies to find me a musician who cares if their song gets played live in a bar or coffee house.

I'd think the extra exposure of the song might have an additive effect on sales...

"Hey, this CD has that song the guy was singing last night! I'll take it."

I'd hardly call that 'lucky'. The two parts of the body both had to be stooges; they'd have had to practice the stunt before. Especially, they'd have had to practice walking around where the 'leg' person couldn't see anything.

Depends. Are you specifying that each of the seven is involved in all of the other things, or merely that each of them has been involved in one or more of the other things?

I wonder if anyone's tried a network-based Ponzi scheme yet?

Is that a not-so-subtle hint that the cables werent replaced in 13 years?

Not necessarily. It could be a not-so-subtle hint that the replacements were made with inferior materials, since the original company didn't provide them.

I'm supposed to be writing a program to pick up files left in an ftp server directory. I have ftp access to the directory, and I have a copy of the Indy pack components installed on my system. However, I'm running into a problem.

The files I'm supposed to be picking up don't have static names. That is, each file is in the format XX-YY-ZZ.csv, where XX and ZZ are constant, but YY is variable. I don't mean simply that it can change, I mean that it's determined on the other side by something I can't predict...in this case, the YY portion of the filename is the timestamp at which the file was created, as far as I can understand the spec sheet I'm working off of.

As I said, I can't predict the value of the timestamp portion of the filenames. As a result, I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to get the files downloaded. As far as I can tell, the Indy component TIdFTP's 'get' functionality won't allow wildcards, and I can't think of any other way to get the files I'm supposed to retrieve.

I have several questions regarding this:

1 .Does anyone know whether or not the TIdFTP component has functionality for the mget command? I know it's possible to give the mget a wildcarded target, but I haven't seen anything in the method list for the component that looks like mget. Am I just looking under the wrong name?

because you can set up a simple experiment which im sure about every high school student has seen.

put a cigarette at one end, and crate a vacuum at the other and in between put your tests in test tubes. using glass pipes to connect them

the lime water goes cloudy (shows presence of carbon dioxide)

the other thing changes colour (shows presence of carbon monoxide)

the indicator solution changes (cant remembder if it went acid or alkali)

the cotton wool went black / yellow in very little time at all due to tar, much likes ones lungs do

ive seen a pair of smokers lungs cut open, there was so much tar in there (tar is a carciogen too)

theres all the scientiic evidence you want to prove that smoking is, on the whole, bad for you.

Several questions, not necessarily given in the order they're brought up.

1. Would you please define 'very little time at all' as regarding color shift in the wool?
2. What 'other thing' are you referring to regarding CO?
3. You specify 'tar is a carciogen(sic) too' in your post. I was under the impression that the substances in the tar were the only carcinogens in play here; would you mind telling me what others are present?
4. Exactly how much of the tar is found in the smoke exhaled by a smoker? From what you've said, most of it appears to go into producing the discoloration in the …

i'm always joking... :P

Seriously?

And Rashakil, shut up, you can't assume what I think or why I think it.

He can assume whatever he likes. Doesn't mean it's correct.

Okay, perhaps you guys are taking this a little bit out of context. A little bit of anything is good. Ever heard of vaccines? Injecting a little bit of a virus into a human is enough to enable the human to build a sufficient immune response. If we look at things at such a microscopic level then just about EVERYTHING is good for you.

The term is Hormesis. It's a commonly observed trait, mostly among chemical substances although there is some evidence that it occurs with radiation as well. The basic idea is this:
The generally held, so-called 'no threshold' theory behind toxicity is incorrect. 'No threshold' means that there's no such thing as a 'safe' dose; the slightest bit could prove to be deadly. Instead, according to the hormesis theory, very low doses of a substance may have beneficial effects, even when higher doses of it prove to be dangerous. The key is in the dosage size, which is why it stands directly against the 'no threshold' theory. The main problem is that the effects of hormesis have been observed experimentally in multiple cases, but the 'no threshold' idea is the one that gets politico-sciency backing (meaning government funding or 'official' recognition from various well-known scientific research bodies).

Again, the problem lies in dose size. Would you (yes, you, the person reading this message) be able to properly measure out a drug dosage within the admittedly small dosage range where hormesis occurs? Or are you likely to …

Apparently not.

(Besides, if they did that, they'd have to go find real news somewhere, not just spoon-fed dribblets from the nearest celebrity press agent.)

It may be fake on our side, but you forfeited the name when you allowed your version to be shortened from association football to assoc. After all, that's where we get the term 'soccer' for it from.

Also good chocolate. And from what I've heard they also have one of the better options regarding weaponrights.

Anyway, back to the topic.

I don't know much about marijuana. I've read elsewhere that it's got a psychoactive ingredient in it, but the definition of psychoactive seems a bit iffy on exactly what that means for the drug. (Psychoactive seems to equal mind-altering; a case could be made that alcohol does that as well, though.)

My big problem with the legalization of these substances is in terms of general use and expansion. In other circumstances, I might hold a differing opinion. (Ex: Morphine as a painkiller for the terminally ill.)

What I mean by expansion: Read back through this thread, and you'll see examples of 'Alcohol is legal, tobacco is legal, so marijuana ought to be legal' logic. The problem with this is that each new 'legal' substance would open the door for more of the currently illegal substances to be legalized. After you guys get your weed, for instance, how long before some crackhead insists that the government should legalize his 'preferred self-administered medication' using the legality of marijuana as his reasoning?

I'm not sure it's a profession, but it could conceivably be considered a career if you're amoral enough...

I have a report page generated off of a database application. It is designed to be printed out, and I did my best to make the page as printer-friendly as possible. However, I have a problem. The layout works fine on landscape print format, but on portrait format, some longer output lines get wrapped, breaking the flow I used for pagebreak setup and generally making the printout look a bit messy.

Is there some way I can, inside the HTML itself, cause the browser to automatically print in landscape format when this page is printed, or is this task something that would have to be modified inside the browser itself?

My results:

Your personality type: Logical, original, creative thinkers. Can become very excited about theories and ideas. Exceptionally capable and driven to turn theories into clear understandings. Highly value knowledge, competence and logic. Quiet and reserved, hard to get to know well. Individualistic, having no interest in leading or following others. Highly analytical, they can discover connections between two seemingly unrelated things, and work best when allowed to use their imagination and critical thinking.
Careers that could fit you includes:
Physicists, chemists, biologists, photographers, strategic planners, mathematicians, university professors, computer programmers, computer animators, technical writers, engineers, lawyers, forensic researchers, writers, artists, psychologists, social scientists, systems analysts, researchers, surveyors.

harmer

because it's by day :)

Every version of this I've heard, this is the correct answer. However, every version I've heard (including one where the driver instead avoids hitting a black dog) has specified that the headlights were off, and has not specified 'pitch-black' street. Although, in literal terms, I suppose that a newly-repaved street might qualify; a street that's just gotten a new load of asphalt on it literally is 'pitch' black.

Either way, though, the original poster's profile seems to show he hasn't been back on since he posted the riddle. And therefore, pursuant to Mattyd's original rules laying down a twelve-hour deadline, I'm calling this one closed. I'll leave a riddle of my own for anyone who wants to try it.

Riddle:
"One day as I was walking along I met a man in the rain. He nodded his head and drew his hat and in this riddle I've said his name."
What is the name?

The US tried prohibition once. It didn't work then, and there's no reason to think that a "war on drugs" is going to work now. At best, it's an expensive stalemate maintaining the status quo. But it seems more likely to turn into another 1 or 2 decade miserable failure.

One thing is for sure, if alcohol were a new "designer" drug, the general attitude to it would be a lot less accepting than it is at the moment.

I think in some ways that's the whole point of what Prohibition resulted in. Alcohol has a multi-thousand-year history as a social beverage; negating that would be nigh-impossible. For a substance which doesn't have such a history, it would be easier to prevent its use...until you do legalize it. Once that's happened, you've pretty much given up on your chance to make it illegal (and have people abide by that) again; it has become part of the common social fabric.

Hm.. actually, you're completely wrong. The U.S. was island hoping, and it was taking way too long to reach mainland Japan. So, the military decided to get close enough to drop nukes, and therefore try to win the war quicker. We didn't gave a damn if civilians were hurt or not. And the reason we chose those two cities out of all the rest is b/c they had remained unscathed so far in the war.. other cities had been bombed previously, and already had damage. The U.S. wanted to show how powerful our new weapons were.. they could completely annihilate untouched cities.

Would you please point out your evidence on this for me? Everything I've seen on this elsewhere indicates that it was done in order to save lives...mostly American lives, I think. The decision, as I understood it, was this:
Projection: X Japanese die from Fat Man and Little Boy.
Projection: Invasion proper will cost the lives of Y Japanese before it ends.
Projection: Invasion proper will cost the lives of Z Allied soldiers before it ends.
Projection: Value X < Value (Y + Z).

And even with the 'end it quicker' bit, wouldn't that also have aided in saving lives? I never said it wasn't about defeating the Japanese war machine...in this case, by hammering at their resolve as well as everything else. I still hold that Dresden was, then, a good idea, and I still wish we'd been allowed by our own …

It's always been my understanding that ticklishness is an automatic nervous reaction to the sudden pressure and/or motion hitting the nerves. Based on this, I'd say it's going to happen to anyone unless they've either got nerve damage, or are somehow capable of filtering out the nerve impulses entirely, as Happygeek seems to be claiming.

"How to protect your neighborhood against crime and Jennifer Beals, star of The Bride. Live at five."

-from a tease on CBS-TV, New York

<sarcasm>Do New York neighborhoods often have a problem with Jennifer Beals then?</sarcasm>

Force in what sense? Given enough power and/or authority, most politicos become heady with it, and grant themselves the initiative motivation.

Nah, not really.

Although the stars do seem to exert too much influence on some people. See for example http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread80322.html

Isn't the bomb on Hiroshima just another example of America killing civilians for politcal reasons (limiting the power of the Emporer and encouraging him to end the war)? He said he couldn't see his people be hurt anymore. To me that seems as though a political decision was made due to the intentional killing of civilians.

The decision(s) to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki were made because the best available estimates indicated that fewer people would die from Fat Man and Little Boy than would die if the allied forces (mostly meaning America in the Pacific Front) were to attempt to invade Japan. Yes, the bombs killed a great number of individuals. However, it was felt that more would have died had they not been used; the bombs were dropped in an effort to bring the war to its end without any more deaths than absolutely necessary.

I thought we had something like a laser program that would destroy a nuclear bomb in midflight. I wouldn't doubt that by now the technology exists whether it be known to us or not. I mean the bomb came out in the nineteen forties. Since then I'm sure people have been looking for a defense against them and more so during the cold war.

You're thinking of the 80's era Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, aka 'Star Wars') program. To my knowledge, the laser-driven portion has not been tested. (Note to the real experts: If I'm wrong about this, please link me to the evidence …

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I dunno if i do or not,i think the universe has been written and we are just pawns in it...... Otherwise things like astrology readings and such couldnt be done as accurate as they seem to be most times.....

Which astrology readings and such? The ones that are so vague they could mean almost anything, and are therefore not falsifiable?

They say houdini died doing one of his stunts, but I know he died of something else.

From what I've seen, Harry Houdini (if you're referring to another one please let me know) is supposed to have died from a combination of part of his own reputation and another person's impatience.

The way the story runs:
One of Houdini's boasts was that he could stiffen up his stomach muscles to the point where they would protect him from most serious punches. He would sometimes offer to demonstrate this. At one such demonstration, rather than waiting for Houdini to stiffen his muscles up, the young man who had asked immediately threw a punch at him. The blow was powerful enough that, in the absence of the muscular shield, it did some damage to Houdini's organs. It was this damage that killed him.

It's possible that the 'during a stunt' came in because Houdini, after the punch, went on to attempt to perform a show that night according to the story. From what I recall, partway through the show he sort of slumped down, and the show was stopped so he could be taken to the hospital. Instead, he passed away before then. It is slightly possible that the performance put a strain on the damaged organs, but from what I've heard that wouldn't have made more than a few hours difference anyway.

Again, this is the common story I've heard; I make no claims for its exact …