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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's not entirely clear to me that private schools would cater to individuals, or group by ability in the way that tutors do. My wife taught at a private school for some years that did that. They had the traditonal grade levels, coursewo
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by bdunbar 15y ago
- If a lab or school environment has multiple OSs, and a need to SSH (telnet/ftp) elsewhere - one would only have to write instructions once. - People who need ssh to a host, who are not comfortable with a command line, or are used to PuTTY
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by bdunbar 15y ago
That was odd. I found your comment reasonable and helpful.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
A mixture of the two points, perhaps. I simply found the idea of PuTTY on Unix odd. Like re-inventing the wheel. If other people like it, like enough to make a port, well good for them. The port mentioned above though limits itself to Win
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Oracle is just as bad, in it's way, with respect to licensing.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Windows only? Sure. Putty is for Windows to allow a user to connect to a real computer, running a unix-y operating system. Except you see a place for Putty in Linux (I guess) and by extension Solaris, HP-UX and etc. I don't see the point
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Mustang vs Eurofighter isn't really a fair comparison in a number of ways. The most important, I think, is that Mustang wasn't a government project, but one designed and built by a private company to meet an existing wartime need. Eurofight
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by bdunbar 15y ago
We've already _got_ a pack of thieves, idiots, never-do-wells and politicians (but I repeat myself) in Congress. It can't get much worse.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
One feature of iTerm that we've come to depend on is 'Send input to all sessions'. Don't use it often, but I'm glad it is there.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Shuttle does one thing very well: it's a gorgeous sight watching her lift off. And seeing her glide to a landing is like poetry. Too complex, too expensive, not best at any one thing. But a sight to see.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Wings! Shuttle had wings thanks to the Air Force joining the project, then the Air Force dropped out, but Shuttle still had wings. Of all the problems with Shuttle the wings bother me the most.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's not an either / or deal. Automation is good for rote tasks. People are good at improvising. During the mission to correct Hubble's lens problem, the supplied tools and procedure failed. The mission specialist utilized scissors and a
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The idea of Shuttle was good. The execution was flawed.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Storage and LAN bandwidth are ridiculously cheap. This is true right up until you present a req for more disk drives for one's network attached storage.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
both already are My local public-use airport (Outagamie County Regional Airport) is owned by the county. DFW is owned by the cities of Dallas and Forth Worth. JKF is owned by the City of New York. What airports are owned by private intere
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by bdunbar 15y ago
He proposes abolition of the TSA. Which I endorse. Nothing about what to replace it with. Long on emotion, short on details.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's also very difficult to determine how effective they are since, to a first approximation, terrorists attacks don't happen even with lowered security. This is also a problem with TSA. And we can calculate - roughly - the cost of TSA i
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by bdunbar 15y ago
In theory an unrestricted free market is nice, in reality unworkable. The role of the State is provide ground rules and regulation of the market. A prudent State recognizes such a thing works best with a light hand, of course. Customers ne
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Seems to me competitive pressures would lead private firms to do exactly what the TSA is doing i.e. give the appearance of being serious about security. In the marketplace competitive pressure leads to better service, not worse. LASIK has
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by bdunbar 15y ago
- Whiteboard in every office. - Offices for everyone. With doors. - A break room with several nice couches or arm chairs. At a previous employer it was great to work for 10 or 12 hours and be able to relax for a bit. - Shower. Fewer peop
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Thank you for updating my knowledge, rdl.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
There is not much one can say to that. Thanks for your replies, it's been a great conversation, Doc.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
"I agree with your sentiment, but disagree with your metaphor." > Why? * People are dosed with medicine all the time without their consent, or rather with parental consent or others acting as guardians. Rape .. not so much. * And visce
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but disagree with your metaphor.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
> I'm worried about the slippery slope Thank you. >> But that's why we have parents > So, you'd rather make their job harder? It's not my place to make another parent's job hard. Or easy. I don't expect or want the governme
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I would like to see some video (not screencast, video) of your 12 year-old son (Note I have raised children who now range in age from 30 to 11, so I have dealt with things like this for a few years) I am cautiously in favor of people sell
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Somehow they heard there were 3 passengers (us and another fellow) who had missed the flight. They all ended up getting off and giving us their seats. They heard you were there because the gate agent went aboard and told them (nicely, I a
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The tents I've seen with A/C units (this was early 90s) were made of a different fabric than the standard tents we berthed in. I believe this was a sort of insulated tent to retain the cooled air. Another reason for the A/C units was to fi
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by bdunbar 15y ago
many generations of men have proven to successfully survive in the desert long I cannot speak for current operations - in the 90s we did not use A/C for the tents we lived in, but for the tents the computers were in. They also functioned
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I have five kids. Three went to public schools, the two youngest were home schooled from an early age. One of that latter set elected to attend the local high school - he wanted to wrestle and they offer the engineering focused curriculum

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