I'm trying to come up with the name of a browser-based game I played back around 1998 or so. It was a space conquest game, with the goal being control of territory (planets). The mechanics were based around "turns" which were a resource granted over time. For example, you might get 100 turns...
Alpha emitters (Like DU) can be nasty if eat/drink/inhale them. It's not really toxicity, but lodging particles of Alpha emitting DU up against cell membranes in (for example) your lungs can be bad in the long run.
You can find more reference to this by looking for information about studies of...
Thanks for the link - mine looks just like their pictures, but older (and even more likely broken) Fortunately These Guys are just up the road from me. I'd reckon that they can probably sort out what my life-expectancy is after spending a few hours in the same room with them :-)
That being...
I'm fairly certain that this Geiger counter was intended to tell me how close to me the Ruskies had managed to land one of their bombs ("MFGD. FOR THE FCDA BY...."). That and I'm all out of bananas.
--Will
The issues stemming from the use of DU bullets largely has to do with the DU becoming particulate matter (as it erodes, is broken up) and inhaled, eaten, drunk. That CD case should be plenty of protection from any Alpha being emitted. If they're tossing gamma about...
My handy, used...
As best I can make out, the wording on the DU is:
U
stored
supernate
Hanford - C+CCC
UAP and Pluov (unsure about the end of Plu...)
Feb. 1949 RSWARNER
--Will
Edit: replaced "supermatic" with "supernate"
The acrylic encased items are a solid slug (the black object) and a hollow tube with something at the end (silver and black) - no vials. The tube and the construction at the end are hollow.
--Will
The acrylic encased item really appears to have been intended to be a display piece, as the acrylic is soft (note the scratches). The DU piece was marked as such 50 years ago, so it should be quite tame at this point.
That being said, they're staying at the far end of my house from my bed...
I recently was given a pair of old (one dated as Feb '49) items passed down to an elderly friend from her mother. My friend spent time growing up in both Hanford, WA and Oak Ridge, TN and her parents were both involved in the nuclear projects their - her father was an accountant of sorts for...
Sadly, given the cases in place, filters are only useful in some of the situations.
Which fan manufacturer came out with a line of fans with the motor moved to the frame of the fan?
*Edit* N/M. Y.S. Tech's TMD's were what I was thinking of....technology seems to have pretty much died.
I've got a handful of computers at a landscaping office that are chewing through their fans - presumably due to the level of dust in the air.
Given that I cannot change the environment, and have already elevated the computers from the floor as much as possible, does it matter what type...
On a couple recent occasions, I've come across a need for a small, custom piece of electronics, that *seems* like it should be easy to build. The most recent example would be a counter that would increment whenever a given line showed voltage (or lack of voltage) and then also connect to a...
I'm in a situation where I've got an office with 6 old computers, each of which shipped with XP Home and had Windows XP Pro installed on them at some point by a previous consultant. I *believe* that it was a clean install from a retail CD, but I have no way to confirm that.
One of these...
Scheduling Wizard. I didn't believe that AT could be used to schedule a job with every-minute repetition. If I'm wrong though, I've got no other reason for using the Wizard over AT.
Thanks,
Will
I've got several computers that have a scheduled task, set to run (a short batch script) every minute between 8am and 8pm. These computers are running Windows XP Pro (SP2) and are part of a Windows 2000 domain. The task is set to run as a domain user who has administrator rights on the local...
I've got a script that generates HTML files by the hundred. I need to pass these (in bulk) to a printer. Has anyone come across a way to do this? I've got access to both Windows and Linux boxes and have found ways to bulk-print just about everything else. Conversion from HTML->PS/PDF would...
I've got a Hawking HWU54D (rev Z)
that until recently worked on a Dell Dimention 4600C. A week ago (without warning) the adapter stopped working, and reports (with a yellow exclaimation mark) that it cannot start. I've un- and reinstalled the drivers for both the adapter and the usb ports and...
The culprit was Spysweeper. It must have been crashing (silently) on shutdown, preventing the system from unmounting the drive cleanly.
Thanks for the suggestions.
--Will
(With drive in other computer)
1) chkdsk
2) fsutil dirty query (drive is clean)
3) defrag
4) virus scan
5) chkdsk
6) fsutil dirty query (drive is clean)
7) Shutdown
(On evil computer)
1) Startup
2) fsutil dirty query (drive is dirty)
The problem MUST be with the registry....
--Will
I've considered it ;-). Anyhow, I beleive the registry entry you are thinking of is the one that contains the "autochk autochk *" entry. It is reset by the chkntfs /D command and only configures what drives Windows checks on startup, dirty or not. I'm trying a new tact now, getting the drive...
I've seen refrences to something similar happening under Windows2000 (a problem that SP4 corrected), but little info on this under XP. For the record, I've also done a repair install and run the System File Checker (sfc.exe) a few times.
--Will
I have checked the drive on another computer, with no problems. I'm trying to avoid a reformat-reinstall and the drive itself is not symptematic - the problem transends drives even. I ghost'ed the origional drive to a spare and have run off the spare and had identical issues. The origional...
This is new: Every once in a while (~1 in 8 perhaps) during the chkdsk on bootup I get "An Unspecified Error has Occured" during Step 2. The system then continues to boot normally.
--Will
I've got a computer running XP SP2 (Home). The computer itself is sound - it'll run memtest86 and Prime95 for hours and the hard drive (A sata Seagate Baracuda IV) passes Seagate's through (full scan) test, as well as the deep (chkdsk /r) windows scan without problems. The issue at hand is...
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