Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

On 5 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<slrng6u9mf.11hj.read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jpd wrote:

Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As he was an outside conslutant. he didn't seem to worry about
stepping on high-ranking toes, or kicking sacred pigs.

That is one reason to hire consultants, though not all of them are
actually independent enough to do that. Rent-a-yes-man, anybody?

I've seen to many who are afraid to make waves because they are looking
for future employment or repeat business. Yes men might be a bit to
strong a term, but it's close.

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Then again, some properties just take a while to emerge. I don't know
how long it took for asbestos, but seeing how widespread it is....

"Hanger One" at the former Moffett Naval Air Station about 55 KM South
East of San Francisco was built for the naval airships in the 1930s.
It's about 1150 by 310 by 190 feet (350 x 94 x 58 meters) with a steel
frame covered by corrugated sheets of 1/2 inch (12 mm) thick asbestos
cement covered steel, (the top 70 feet / 21.3 meters is covered with
2 inch redwood sheathing and that is covered by asphalted felt). The
building gets a regular paint job to keep the asbestos covered. They
can't remove the asbestos (even if they could find the money and a
fool willing to do the work) or tear down the building because it's
a national and state historic landmark and is protected by law.

The laws have changed considerably in the last fifty years, thanks
in part to an abundance of lawyers here. Consequently, both the
governments and manufacturers are a LOT more sensitive to possible
health hazards.

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I know that most pimps are powdered plastic dog poop, but are all
of them in town that bad?

I don't know. The ``town'' as in search radius is most of Europe, so I
suppose there should be one or two halfway reasonable ones somewhere,
just so far not the people who choose to react to my inquiries.

You seem to be finding a lot of them.

We didn't get any rain ([...]) but we got some lightning (luckily no
fires here) and lots of strong winds.

The concept of a thunderstorm without rain is fairly alien to me.\

They're pretty common here. We don't have enough low altitude moisture
but there is enough at medium altitudes to cause lightning. The result
is a lot of air/air strikes which look pretty, but also a significant
number of air/ground strikes which often result in fires. The July 2008
issue of the "National Geographic" magazine has a 28 page article on
this - they're saying the majority of fires are still caused by man.
For perspective, 15000 square miles or 38833 square kilometers burned
in 2006, two thirds of that in the Western part of the country. There
are several hundred wild fires today in California and most of those
are believed to have been caused by lightning strikes. The fire
services are nervous enough about it to have electronic lightning
strike finders (basically direction finders) which are monitored.
When a strike is detected in a remote area, they'll send someone in to
look for signs of a fire. I learned to fly years ago in California,
and one unofficial task that was stressed was that if you see a fire
and don't see indications that the fire services are working it, you
WILL report it via radio and the FAA will forward the information to
the state fire officials.

Of course, here ``thunderstorms'' are showers with a couple of flashes
and it's over in an hour.

Suffice to say our thunderstorms can be a lot more violent than that.
While an individual cell may only last a short time, there's usually
a lot more than one. It's not unusual to see line storms, which are
a series of thunderstorms along a weather front - these may be several
hundred miles long.

Somehow, I prefer being indoors, though the +44C temperatures outside
could be a factor.

And I thought the 30-odd C here was a lot.

You are a little further North, and thus cooler. We've seen a few days
above 50C, but they've been relatively rare. On the other hand, last
year, we had some 33 days in a row with highs over 110F/43C (even though
most publications say the monthly average highs for May to September
are 33, 38, 40, 38, and 36C respectively. Right now, our nightly _lows_
have been 27 to 32C.

Well, the cave I live in lags quite a few degrees behind the outside
(without AC or anything, just five floors above me to absorb all the
warmth) so I only notice that when I'm shopping for groceries.

This house has 7 Tons (84000 BTU/H = 24.6 KW) of central air conditioning.

You've mentioned elsewhere you aren't a driver. One of the prized
features of many workplaces is covered parking. You learn to avoid
touching metal that has been parked in the sun. (Open doors on both
sides, wait 30 seconds, reach in and remove the sun-shields from all
the windows - get in, start the engine, turn on the air conditioning,
wait ten-twenty seconds more and finally close the doors and drive away.)
And only a really dumb tourist drives a car without air conditioning.

Old guy
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