January 2003 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

hour of gold

by doug waud

Keith Wright wrote: > > From: doug waud <douglas.waud(a)umassmed.edu> > > > > > "An ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of time." > > > > What will an *hour* of gold get you? > > > > doug > > Well, in General Relativity we often use geometrical units, in > which c = 1 and G = 1/8{\pi}. Using c = 3e10 cm/s, and > G = 6.67e-8 cm^3/g s^2, we get the conversion factor > 1 second = 1.5e34 kg, so an hour of gold would be 5.4e37 kg. > An hour of gold would be quite valuable as a gold > certificate. Taking actual delivery would be dangerous--- > unless you keep it well spread out in a vault with a radius > much more that 1 light-hour = 1 trillion kilometers, your fortune > will collapse into a black hole. Does this have anything to do with the term "golden years" doug

Jan. 30, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Fwd: Too Funny - I had to share

by Keith Wright

> From: doug waud <douglas.waud(a)umassmed.edu> > > > "An ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of time." > > What will an *hour* of gold get you? > > doug Well, in General Relativity we often use geometrical units, in which c = 1 and G = 1/8{\pi}. Using c = 3e10 cm/s, and G = 6.67e-8 cm^3/g s^2, we get the conversion factor 1 second = 1.5e34 kg, so an hour of gold would be 5.4e37 kg. An hour of gold would be quite valuable as a gold certificate. Taking actual delivery would be dangerous--- unless you keep it well spread out in a vault with a radius much more that 1 light-hour = 1 trillion kilometers, your fortune will collapse into a black hole. Note: This system of units comes from Sachs and Wu, "General Relativity for Mathematicians". Other authors prefer to set G = 1 and leave a factor of 8 pi in the Einstein field equations. I refuse to argue about it. -- Keith

Jan. 30, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Fwd: Too Funny - I had to share

by jose sanchez

--- doug waud <douglas.waud(a)umassmed.edu> wrote: > jose sanchez wrote: > > > > "An ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of time." > > - Anonymous > > What will an *hour* of gold get you? Money, maybe? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

Jan. 29, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Fwd: Too Funny - I had to share

by doug waud

jose sanchez wrote: > > "An ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of time." > - Anonymous What will an *hour* of gold get you? doug

Jan. 29, 2003

X on IBM Thinkpad A30

by bryon3245＠netzero.com

would anyone willing to help me get X working on my ThinkPad A30 running Gentoo with all the packages on there most current relese. Feeel free to contact me at bryon3245(a)netzero.com. Thanks -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

Jan. 28, 2003

Fwd: Too Funny - I had to share

by jose sanchez

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Jan. 28, 2003

SCSI Enclosures...

by Michael Kingsbury

I'm in need of an external SCSI enclosure that can accept 1.6" SCSI drives with SCA Connections. Does anyone have any sources for such a thing that's not overly expense? I haven't seen anything on ebay... -beaker

Jan. 25, 2003

books

by Yury I Vashugin

hi, everyone! i'm looking for used books c/c++ and java. if you have any to give away, please, let me know. thank you. vashugins(a)juno.com ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com

Jan. 22, 2003

Re: [Wlug] .htaccess for an exception!

by Setag Lib

> My point is, can I defined *.* as protected files where the index.html, > fly.jpg are not inlcluded in *.* definition. > So, here, the visitor can still freely accessing the my index.html and > fly.jpg where they are availbale in every sub domain directory. Depending on the versions of your software, these might be usefull: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html#basic http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#files Specifically, the regex matching of the <FILES> section. If you can provide some more info, I can let you know if these would help you. What kernel rev do you use? What File System, and how big are the block sizes? How much ram is in your machine? What version of apache are you using? Do you have mod_perl installed, if so, what version of PERL are you using? Do you have a TCP stack with the syn/ack flag support? Are you using IPv4 or IPv6? Do you use 8903.11t? You're not using token ring, are you? -Setag

Jan. 22, 2003

oracle ad :-)

by doug waud

Hi all This morning's T&G had an amusing ad from Oracle. It consisted of a large heading "Email" and then two columns Oracle and Micro$oft starting with cost per user of $60 for Oracle and $126 for Micro$oft. It then continued the comparison of other properties. However, at the bottom of the Micro$oft column was "Costs more, but you also get Melissa, Snow White, Michelangelo..." doug

Jan. 22, 2003