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Here's the black start procedure for the 1950's-era ship I worked on. No idea if this is at all similar to how they start diesels on a modern sub.

1. Hand-crank a small diesel engine connected to a small air compressor.

2. Use the small air compressor to build up pressure to start the emergency diesel generator.

3. Start the emergency diesel.

4. Using the emergency power, run one of the large air compressors to build up pressure for starting the main generators.

5. Start the main generators.

The emergency diesel was near the stern of the ship, away from the generator room, to ensure an generator room fire couldn't take out the emergency diesel.

Yes, easily. One responsibility of the Canadian Air Force is search and rescue on land and at sea.

Your CounterPunch source seems to have quite an agenda. It goes on to claim that Iran has no nuclear weapons program at all- a claim that is not well supported by all the things we see Iran doing.

Even if the article is correct, Ahmadinejad has said things like "this regime that is occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time" and "I have no doubt that the new movement taking place in our dear Palestine is a wave of morality which is spanning the entire Islamic world and which will soon remove this stain of disgrace from the Islamic world." The simplest interpretation of these statements is that Ahmadinejad strongly supports military action against Israel. (Unless you think Ahmadinejad is talking about a more peaceful way for Israel to "vanish from the page of time?")

Also: who cares if Iran has a Jewish population? That doesn't mean Ahmadinejad isn't a threat to Israel.

The initcwnd change is helpful on any host that has more than 2 segments worth of data ready to send at the beginning of the connection. So a client that wants to send lots of data would benefit from the change.

For 99% of web browsing, the client's request fits in one or two segments and so would not benefit from the change.

> Honda sold about 200,000 of the hybrids over a six-year period, and because of resales, as many as 500,000 people are eligible to file claims against Honda.

How could a second-hand buyer claim to have suffered an unexpected loss? Could not Honda (assuming they would bother responding to the small claims action) easily show that the fault was well known and second-hand buyers should have known they were getting a 30-mpg hybrid? Or was this something that only appeared after a number of years?

The cost certainly is relevant. You can lease or rent a cube van. You can't rent $10 tools.

Perhaps the results of this test don't predict academic success very well. I graduated at the top of my program (of about 30 graduates) last year and scored only 20.5k.

Maybe I fell behind my peers by only reading comp sci, math, business, and communications related stuff for 4 years. Guess I've got some catching up to do.

Munin, the package that charts performance and usage metrics, does so at 5 min intervals by default. But its purpose is to show historical trends (it tracks every single metric for the past year), and its users are expected to understand that it doesn't help for the kind of thing this article is about.

Once while driving down to the Oregon coast, I was very surprised to be driving through a rural area and suddenly see a 747 parked near the highway, at what appeared to be a very small airfield. Now that I know what the place is, I definitely won't visit the coast again without going to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.

If you're not into water slides, maybe some of these exhibits at the museum next door will interest you:

- Spruce Goose

- Mercury Space Capsule

- NASA X-38

- SR-71 Blackbird

For the product I work on (a connection bonding appliance & service), we've used Soekris devices but have found them to be underpowered compared to newer Atom-based products from Portwell [1] and Lanner [2]. Geode-based products are fine if all you're doing is basic firewall, routing, and VPN stuff. Apparently Soekris is soon to introduce their own Atom device.

Another option is a Linux netbook configured with VLANs to get around having only a single NIC. Then if you lock yourself out via the network, you have a keyboard and monitor built-in and don't have to go find the serial cable in your stuff-you-hoped-you'd-never-have-to-use-again box.

[1] http://www.portwell.com/products/ca.asp#SOHO [2] http://www.lannerinc.com/Network_Application_Platforms/x86_N...

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It's so quiet. Too quiet. If I had one, I'd only drive it with the stereo blasting engine noises from BMW's old "The Hire" series of short films.

So John Grisham wasn't joking in his novels. Ouch.

The title must be an acknowledgement of the oft-mentioned "They Write the Right Stuff": http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html

Additionally, they can use sacrificial anodes to reduce corrosion and apply an electric current to reduce growth of living things.

You're certainly right about the effects of being in a long-term relationship/contract. That's why things work much better when one has an attitude of, "I'm in this for the long haul- I better make an effort to straighten things out," rather than, "It's hard for my spouse to end this thing so I can slack off and be selfish."

Serious long term relationships are great, but without some kind of well-understood commitment like marriage there's nothing keeping two people together for life.

When everything is going great in my marriage, I don't need a reminder that I'm obligated to stay with my wife. It's when things suck that my ring, my vows, and my marriage certificate are beneficial. They keep me there because I know that if I break them, I'd be a liar. And I know my wife will stick with me when things are tough because she's made the same commitment.

If marriage is silly, are contracts between employers and employees and between founders and investors also silly? If not, why?

Every cryptologist knows Alice. Maybe every RF engineer knows Emily?

You're being funny, I know. But just FYI, you do not need to put a stamp on letters to Members of Parliament.

I read somewhere that GM's union commitments added about $2,000 to the price of a car. Meaning that if you buy a GM automobile, $2,000 is going to union-related stuff, rather than buying extra features, better quality, a longer warranty, etc.

> If wholesale murder really was their goal they could do a whole lot better than they're doing, let's hope they don't catch on to that.

Oh, some of them certainly have. Why do you think Mr. Ahmadinejad has so many uranium centrifuges?

Tools in this photo:

Homebrew PC with Windows 7, 20" and 17" Dell Ultrasharps

Lenovo R61

TI 83+

Leatherman

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That statement was referring just to Canadian Tire, a retail store that also offers credit cards. I assume the card company can only get that kind of detailed information if you make your Canadian Tire purchase with your Canadian Tire MasterCard.

I once purchased a CO detector at Canadian Tire... maybe I'll bring that up when I apply for my next credit card?